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Subject:RE: It did happen on a Friday... From:"John Posada" <JPosada -at- isogon -dot- com> To:<lyndsey -dot- amott -at- docsymmetry -dot- com> Date:Tue, 24 Feb 2004 10:58:39 -0500
In my experience, primary and secondary do not denote importance or
hierarchy. The terms are used in redundant systems: "primary" refers to
the active unit; "secondary" refers to the unit that becomes active
when there is a failure in the primary unit or when someone manually
switches over to the secondary unit.
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But that's still not the same thing as Master/Slave.
