If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"?
If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"?
It sounds way less offensive to those who decry the original terminology's problematic roots but still keeps its meaning intact.
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It is changing, albeit slowly. In git the default branch was changed from master to main.
In high availability we use primary and secondary, or many other versions of the same idea (main/secondary, etc).
Not sure how disks are handled these days but I haven't seen the master/slave terminology in those since my first CD burner
In git the default branch was changed from master to main.
It wasn't. GitHub changed.
In high availability we use primary and secondary, or many other versions of the same idea (main/secondary, etc).
Which is fine because in HA it's about failover, not "who's in control".
There are areas where the master/slave terminology is used because the slave does what the master says. It's "the master has authority" not "if the master dies the slave takes over".
Different words mean different things.