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On a serious note, I dearly wish someone had taken the lessons of OpenVMS into the open source world. Its clustering is amazing.

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Could you elaborate/provide a few reading pointers please?

https://vmssoftware.com/products/clusters/

We had machines in two buildings with multiple machines in the cluster. You could upgrade machines in a cluster and not lose any time. I thought DragonflyBSD is trying to head in that direction with storage (HAMMER).

I believe the problem here is business-level, and this can’t really be fixed technically. The problem is, this kind of design requires organized commitment to run it to completion, and can’t work in a culture focused on dropping a half-working MVP early and then failing to follow up.

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