setting up distributed environment

[Serge Aleynikov]

It's a bit unclear what do you mean by a 'master' node.  Mnesia doesn't 
have a notion of a master or slave.  Any node that has a replicated 
table can have local writes to that table that will be propagated to 
other replicas.  The level of control that mnesia gives you is what 
nodes host disk/ram copies of a table.

In your application you could have two nodes running on two separate 
hosts with tables created using 'disc_copies' option.  The mnesia 
application would need to be started with the 'extra_db_nodes' option 
containing these two nodes ['app@REDACTED', 'app@REDACTED'].  The remaining 
nodes could have mnesia started with the same 'extra_db_nodes' option, 
and have these tables replicated as ram_copies if needed.  This option 
would be applicable if you needed to provide quick local access to 
tables by some other node 'x@REDACTED'.

You should be concerned with the fact that the more nodes you have a 
table replicated to, the longer each transactional write to such a table 
will take, and also the more sensitive your overall solution will be to 
intermittent network outages.

Regards,

Serge

Igor Goryachev wrote:
> Hello everyone.
> 
> I am going to setup erlangish application. My purpose is to make it
> fault-tolerant by replicating it's mnesia over several nodes. Still I
> have some doubts concerned with setting master nodes.
> 
> I will have two machines for the first time (lets consider 'app@REDACTED'
> and 'app@REDACTED'). Am I right I am going to make 'app@REDACTED' master node
> of 'app@REDACTED' and vice versa. Any thoughts? Well, and what about when
> number of nodes more that two?
> 
> Thank you veru much for the attention.