Well, I setup a 9-computer MySQL cluster to do some experimentation with OWS. Its pretty neat, I have DDNS setup with DHCP, and a neat thing setup with rsync where every single machine syncs its configuration to the ‘primary’ machine each hour. Its pretty cool, I’ll have to write some more posts about it.

Anyways, if you ever use MySQL cluster, theres one important tip that they don’t really mention in the manual:

MAKE SURE ALL OF YOUR STORAGE NODES ARE UP, OTHERWISE THE CLUSTER WONT START. 

See, I had this issue with one of the network cards on the machines, so I decided just to try and get the thing to work without messing with the machine. Which, has worked pretty well until I got around to screwing with the MySQL cluster.  And, you would think this is perfectly obvious — but its not. So thats my tip.

Of course, after talking to the guys on efnet #mysql, turns out that MySQL cluster probably won’t benefit OWS anyways. But, we shall see, right? 🙂