[rabbitmq-discuss] RabbitMQ mirrored queues and node failure

Fri Nov 18 21:37:35 GMT 2011

On 18/11/11 14:31, Major Hayden wrote:
> I'm still a bit confused on some of the operations behind the scenes
> with mirrored queues.  The documentation states:
>
> "All actions other than publishes go only to the master, and the
> master then broadcasts the effect of the actions to the slaves."
>
> This makes it sounds like publishes go to the slaves

The key word in the above is "only". Publishes go to the slaves *and* 
the master.

Matthias.