[rabbitmq-discuss] Is the "master" node mandatory ?

Tue Oct 19 14:14:06 BST 2010

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 03:11:55PM +0200, Vincent Barat wrote:
> When the first node is not started, the second node cannot be
> started (AFAIK, because it need to wait for the "master" node to be
> up in order to replicate Mnesia tables).

If your master node is a disk node, and your non master node is a Ram
node, then yes, you'll always need the disk node to be up. Otherwise,
the ram node will not contain any data.

Matthew