Comment on If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"?
Chocrates@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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
wewbull@feddit.uk 2 months ago
It wasn’t. GitHub changed.
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.