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|27 Oct 1998
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|Michael E. Fisher
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This application is a continuation of application Ser. No. 08/377,304 filed Jan. 23, 1995, now abandoned.
This invention relates to a method and apparatus for maintaining network connections across a voluntary process switchover. A "takeover" or "switchover" is defined as a switch between processors in a dual processor environment, where one processor backs up the other so that in the event of a failure the backup processor takes over the responsibilities of the primary processor. In the past, network connections between applications that are coordinated through an application running in the primary processor have been lost during takeovers or switchovers. The present invention is directed to enhancing a smooth transition during takeovers, preferably during voluntary takeovers, so that no connections between server and client applications are lost.
The present invention is intended to provide an improved method and apparatus for maintaining network connections across a switchover in a dual processor environment.
During a switchover, certain data relating to a network connection can be used to ensure that the connection made just prior to the switchover will not be lost. The present invention is directed to disclosing how such data can be archived to maximize the probability of preserving network connections during switchovers in a dual processor environment.
In the preferred embodiment the present invention is used with a Tandem machine running under the NonStop™ operating system kernel and transmitting IPX/SPX data packets, but in general any dual processor hardware environment running any operating system and any communications protocol may utilize the present invention, including TCP/IP. The IPX/SPX protocol is described in the publication "Inside Netware for Unix, Ver. 3.11" by Susan Purcell and Judy Wilson (Novell Research Report, (c) 1992).
FIG. 1 is a schematic of a dual processor computer system.
FIG. 2 is a table describing various states present when practicing the present invention.
FIGS. 3 and 4 are flowcharts describing the operation of the present invention.
Referring to FIG. 1, there is shown a network in which a preferred embodiment of the present invention operates. The network comprises a server node 15 communicating with a protocol process node 20, which in turn communicates with a transmission network 30, which may be a WAN or LAN, operating in a "store-and-forward" message switching mode using data packets, preferably IPX/SPX data packets, and connected to a client node 25.
It will be understood by those skilled in the art that a node comprises a processor, such as processor 16, having primary storage memory, such as memory 17 (eg., RAM), secondary storage memory (not shown, such as disk drives), keyboard, monitor and other I/O ports, such as I/O ports 18, as needed. A data bus or other suitable data path connection 19 connects different node I/O ports to one another and allows IPX/SPX data packets to be sent and received through the ports. Protocol process node 20 comprises two separate and independent nodes, a primary protocol process node 22 and backup protocol process node 24. The protocol process node 20 secures the reliability of the connection between at least one server application or program and a client application.
In FIG. 1 the server node application is shown for conceptional purposes as running from an independent server node 15 that is separate and distinct from protocol process node 20. The client node application is in turn shown running from a separate and distinct client node 25. However, in the general multi-tasking case, the server node(s) and/or the client node(s) do not have to be physically separate and distinct from the protocol process node 20, rather, what is separate and distinct are the applications (programs), such as the server application, residing in a memory 11, the protocol process application, residing in a memory 12p (of the primary node 22) and 12b (of the backup node 24), and the client application, residing in memory 13.
Furthermore it is envisioned that the protocol processor node 20 may support one or more server applications, and a server application often services a multiplicity of client applications.
As before, the protocol process node 20 includes two nodes, primary node 22 and backup node 24, each having its own independent processors: a primary processor and a secondary processor. The protocol processor node 20 stores both the data and code implementing the present invention in primary memory (RAM). The two independent processors communicate with one another any pertinent data relating to securing the reliability of the maintenance of a connection between the server node 15 and the client node 25. Data is transferred to and from the primary and backup nodes along a data path 19, as shown with the double arrows 27 in FIG. 1, and to and from other nodes as well. The primary processor passes such data in real time to the backup processor, which archives the data. The backup processor acknowledges that data has been received, copied and stored in primary memory (RAM), as explained more fully below. The process of passing important data between the primary and backup nodes and the backing up or archiving of this relevant data in the backup processor's memory is known as "checkpointing" the data.
One focus of the present invention is the checkpointing of certain data during a voluntary switch between primary and backup nodes of a protocol process node, also known more generally as a "takeover" or "switchover". A "takeover" or "switchover" is defined as a switch, either voluntary or involuntary, between processors such as found in primary and backup nodes 22, 24. In such a switchover the backup processor of the protocol process processor takes over the duties of the primary processor. Involuntary takeovers can occur in a variety of ways, usually unexpected, such as if the primary processor is damaged or data lines to the primary processor are corrupted. Voluntary takeovers are "planned for" takeovers, and can occur by human intervention (such as during load balancing) or automatically after some event (such as after the failure of certain hardware ports). Furthermore, after a voluntary switchover where the primary processor has not been damaged, and whenever possible, the backup node becomes the primary node, and the primary node backs up the backup node. The present invention allows for a smooth transition during takeovers, preferably during voluntary takeovers, so that no connections between server and client applications are lost. Performing a checkpoint will increase the probability of maintaining a connection between a server application and a client application in the event of a switchover.
Generally, in an IPX/SPX environment a server application forms a point of contact (connection) in a particular node, such as a protocol process node, with a client application, called a "socket" or "IPX/SPX socket". Such an IPX/SPX socket identifies the application (or a higher level protocol) within the node. IPX/SPX sockets can be thought of like a TCP/IP port, as "port" is used in a TCP/IP protocol context. An "endpoint" is a more specific point of contact in that it relates to a data structure that is used by applications. More generally, a connection between server and client applications, such as the server and client applications that reside in memory 11 and memory 13, that interact via a protocol process application, such as the protocol process application which resides in memory 12p and 12b, is termed a "network connection".
Turning attention now to FIG. 2, there is shown in a table outlining the variety of states for the network of FIG. 1 when transmitting data, establishing sockets and endpoints, and more generally establishing a network connection between a server application(s), protocol process application(s) and client application(s). The use of solid and dashed arrows between the columns in FIG. 2 representing primary and backup processors indicates communication between these two independent processors and nodes of the protocol process node. Solid and dashed arrows between the columns for server application and protocol process application indicates communication between these applications. The processor of the primary node 22, and the processor of the backup node 24, both run the Tandem NonStop kernel in their operating system.
In a typical application of the present invention, a socket is to be maintained between the server application and a client application. Pertinent data is checkpointed from the primary node processor 26 to the backup processor 46 so that in the event of a takeover of the primary processor, the backup processor takes over the duties of the primary processor and maintains the socket open. It should be understood that generally several sockets may be maintained by a single primary processor. Present Tandem designs allow for about 2500 sockets to be maintained by a single primary processor. Multiple primary processors may be employed in parallel as well.
Referring to FIG. 2, typically a application on a server 15 creates a socket in primary memory 27 (such as RAM) of the primary node 22 of the protocol process node 20 by calling a function, as represented by the row labeled SOCKET(). The socket provides a connection or communication endpoint in primary memory 27 of the primary processor node 22, such as represented by reference number 42, so that the primary processor node may identify the application within the server node that will be accessed by a client application running in client node 25. To this end a message identifying the socket to be opened is passed to the primary processor application from the server processor application, as represented by the solid arrow 44. The primary processor creates an open control block (OCB) in memory at endpoint 42, which will be used by the server application and any future client applications to coordinate the passing of data packets.
An acknowledgement that the socket/OCB has been created by the primary processor 26 is relayed back to the server application, as represented by dashed arrow 46. Because data relating to an OCB/socket is needed to maintain an open socket between a client application and a server application, it must be archived ("checkpointed"). Thus, when the socket is created by the primary processor, data relating to the parameters necessary for the maintenance of the socket, such as the OCB, are checkpointed to the backup processor 24 by the protocol process application, as represented by solid arrow 50, and an acknowledgement that the data has been successfully stored by the backup processor is sent back to the primary processor, as represented by dashed arrow 52. The data structure (OCB) storing this information in the primary memory of both the primary and backup processors of the protocol process processor is an endpoint as well.
In the event that there is voluntary takeover at this point (after the creation of an OCB after the server application calls a socket function, SOCKET()), the takeover would be transparent (invisible) to any end user at the server node, and the connection between server application and protocol process processor application would be maintained without having to reset (kill) the connection.
After this step, an application in the server node typically "binds" to a particular socket, as indicated by the next row in FIG. 2 labeled BIND(), and solid arrow 60, with suitable acknowledgement sent back to the server application, as indicated by dashed arrow 62. During binding, a particular server application is associated with the just created socket, and a network address is created in the protocol process primary node memory 27 for a client application to reference. Since this information is also important to the maintenance of an open network connection or socket between the server and client applications, the primary processor 26 of the primary node 22 checkpoints this data to the backup processor 46 of the backup node 24, as indicated by solid arrow 64, and an acknowledgement of successful archiving of the data in memory is relayed back to the primary processor 26 from the backup processor 46, as indicated by dashed arrow 66.
A voluntary takeover or switchover of the protocol process processor at this point (after the BIND() function call in the server application) would allow the backup processor to assume the role of the primary processor, and the backup processor, using the checkpointed data, could maintain a connection between the server and protocol process node applications with total transparency to an end user at the server, who would not realize a switchover has occurred.
Subsequent to this step, typically an application for a SPX server (a sequential packet exchange server, which guarantees packet delivery) calls a function ACCEPT() (the ACCEPT() function is well known to those skilled in the art and is found in any standard UNIX library). After ACCEPT() the SPX server application goes into a state to await to receive data from a client application. Only SPX servers would utilize the ACCEPT() function, since they are connection oriented and they attempt to ensure the proper sequence of data packets is present through the use of packet 'sequence numbers'. This is in contrast to an IPX server, which operate under a stateless or connection-less server protocol that does not guarantee packet delivery.
In the present invention, the ACCEPT() function call need not be checkpointed after it has been first called by the SPX server application. The absence of checkpointing at this stage is indicated by the absence of arrows at reference number 72 in FIG. 2., indicative of the lack of communication between the primary and backup nodes at this time. Thus the server application communicates with the primary processor that the ACCEPT() function has been executed, as per arrow 70, but no checkpointing of data relating to the ACCEPT() function call occurs at this point. In the present invention the checkpointing of the ACCEPT function call after it has been called is not needed because in the event of a failure of the primary processor at this point the server node would automatically redirect its requests to the backup processor, because it runs under the fault tolerant Nonstop kernel. The automatic redirection of requests to the backup processor is also described in the U.S. patent application entitled "Network System with Resilient Virtual Fault Tolerant Sessions" by Marc Desgrousilliers, commonly assigned, filed concurrently with the present invention and incorporated by reference herein.
Typically after the completion of calls to SOCKET(), BIND() and ACCEPT() by an SPX server application, a reply will be received by the primary processor in the form of data packets received from a client application, as indicated by line 80. The data is directed by the primary processor to the particular socket bound. The use of an arcuate loop at reference number 82 and throughout FIG. 2 indicates that no data is being routed through the backup processor during this time.
Once a request is received, the primary processor informs the server application that a reply has been received from the client application, as indicated by dashed arrow 90. A connection is now established between the server application and a client application. Once a connection is made, information pertinent to the maintenance of the client-server application connection is checkpointed, such as the address of the client, by the primary processor to the backup processor, as indicated by arrows 94, 96. In the event of a voluntary takeover at this point (after ACCEPT() has been acknowledged and the address of the client checkpointed), the backup processor would have enough information to maintain the connection between the server and client nodes.
The creation of a socket, binding of the socket and, optionally, (in a SPX server) a call to ACCEPT() as described above, constitutes only a fraction of the time spent by and between a client application and server application. The majority of the time is spent sending and receiving data in the form of data packets, preferably IPX/SPX data packets. Thus a server application sends data by calling a function SEND(), as indicated by arrow 100, for use in the client application. Likewise, as indicated by arrow 110, a server application accepts data from a client node by calling a function RECV().
Under present technology there is no checkpointing of individual data packets transmitted and received by the server application, because of the sheer number of such data packets in a typical application. Presently, rather than the individual data packets sent and received being checkpointed during sending and receiving of such packets, data is checkpointed that relates to whether the server and client applications are in a connected state or a not connected state. In the connected state the SEND() and RECV() functions may be employed to send and receive data packets, respectively, between client and server applications. In the not connected state such a connection is not present, and SEND() and RECV() cannot be used. Data indicating whether or not the client and server applications are in a connected or not connected state would be checkpointed, as indicated by arrows 102, 104, and in the event of a takeover, if the applications are in a connected state, the backup node would use any such checkpointed data to continue to process the SEND() and RECV() functions transparently. If the applications are in a not connected state, then the entire process would have to be reset by the protocol process application.
In the case of an SPX server, which, unlike an IPX server, is concerned with guaranteeing data packet delivery, the maintenance of a connection is complicated because sequence numbers are included along with data packets transmitted. If there is a failure of the primary processor, the backup processor takes over but does not necessarily know what the sequence numbers have been received, since the individual data packets are not checkpointed. Thus the backup processor cannot guarantee that the data packets have been properly sent, which violates SPX protocol. This situation usually means that the network connection between the SPX server and client has to be killed (reset).
There are, however, a few exceptions to this general rule that send/receive connections are killed in SPX servers during a takeover. One is in the case of voluntary takeovers involving, in the Tandem environment, a voluntary switch from the primary protocol node to the backup node, such as by human operator choice (e.g., for load balancing between processors) or in the event certain hardware ports are corrupted, such as ports found in I/O port 28 that interface with the transmission network 30 and the primary processor 26 in primary node 22. Both of these takeovers can be planned for, and are thus considered voluntary takeovers. In these types of voluntary takeovers, just prior to switching processors, primary node 22 checkpoints sequence numbers from data packets present (and queued) in its memory. Thus, once such a voluntary takeover occurs, the network connection between SPX client and server applications is maintained transparently.
However, in a preferred embodiment of the present invention, as represented by FIG. 4, even in the case of a such a voluntary switchover a connection is not in fact maintained if any data packets are being queued by the primary protocol process--which correspond to data packets waiting to be read by the SPX server, or data packets waiting to be transmitted to the client node application--that is, if the SPX server/ protocol process application connection is "non idle". Since in most instances a connection is "idle" anyway, for the most part there is no need to plan for "non idle" states. This is because typically no queue is present while a server application is reading, and the transmission of data packets between the protocol processor and client application is efficient enough that relatively little retransmission and waiting for acknowledgement of data occurs. However, from the above teaching one can modify the FIG. 4 embodiment of practicing the present invention so that even queued data is checkpointed just prior to a voluntary takeover, thus obviating the distinction between "idle" and "non-idle" server/ protocol processor application connections, and allowing connections between client and server applications to always be maintained in a voluntary takeover, when in the SEND() and RECV() states.
Turning attention now to FIGS. 3 and 4, there are depicted flowcharts describing a preferred embodiment of the invention as described above in conjunction with FIGS. 1 and 2, and intended to augment and in no way diminish the foregoing description.
FIG. 3 describes the process as implemented by a typical application of the present invention. For purpose of illustration, throughout the flowcharts it is assumed that a voluntary takeover is being contemplated, as described above, and that the primary node is not damaged and can serve as a backup to the original backup node (which would be employed after the takeover as a `primary node`), unless otherwise specified.
A socket is to be opened between a server application and a client application, with data transmitted between server and client applications via network 30 by the primary processor node 22 of the dual processor protocol process node 20. To this end, at step 205, a unique socket is created by an application (program) in the server node working in conjunction with the protocol process application in the primary node 22 that implements the present invention, as explained above in conjunction with SOCKET() and FIG. 2. Data and messages are passed between the server and primary node applications to create and acknowledge the creation of an OCB/socket in the primary node's memory. Since no checkpointing of the OCB/socket has been performed at this point, a takeover at this point (step 210) would necessitate a reset of the process (step 215), and the endpoint related to the socket/OCB would be killed, and the process restarted at step 200. Once the data relating to the OCB/socket is checkpointed by the protocol process application from the primary to backup node (step 220), a takeover at this point (step 225) would enable the backup node to assume the responsibilities of the primary node, with the primary node becoming the "backup" to the former backup node (step 230).
The server application then typically binds the socket (step 235), associating it with a particular application, and creates a network address for a client application to reference. This information is checkpointed from the primary to the backup node, so that in the event of a takeover after this point (step 240) the backup node becomes the primary node (step 230) in a seamless and invisible manner to the server application, without having to reset.
At step 250, the server application confirms that the server application is an SPX server (sequential packet exchange server), and if not, there is no need to proceed and the server application exits (step 252). If the server is a SPX server, the application proceeds to the ACCEPT() function (step 255), which is a function that puts an SPX server application in a state in which it awaits to receive data from a client application. A takeover at this point would allow the backup node to takeover the primary node functions, with the understanding that there is no need to checkpoint an ACCEPT() function, because the NonStop kernel that the protocol process node runs under would automatically redirect requests directed to the primary node processor 26 to the backup processor 46 (step 265). The automatic redirection of requests to the backup processor is also described in the U.S. patent application entitled "Network System with Resilient Virtual Fault Tolerant Sessions" by Marc Desgrousilliers, commonly assigned, filed concurrently with the present invention and incorporated by reference herein.
Once a client application responds to the primary processor of the processor node, as indicated by step 270, the reply is acknowledged by the protocol process application of the primary node to the server application, information relating to the address of the client is checkpointed, as per step 275, and a connection is established between the server and client applications. A takeover after this point (step 280) would not result in resetting of the socket between client and server nodes, as indicated by step 230. The network connection is now ready to send and receive IPX/SPX data packets, as indicated in step 282.
Referring now to FIG. 4, which relates to SPX servers, typically the bulk of an application's time is spent not in establishing an endpoint or socket, but rather in sending and receiving data packets (step 290). After the connection has been established between client and server applications, the data that relates to the establishment of the connection is checkpointed (step 290). In the event of a takeover during the sending and receiving of data (step 295), if the network connection between the applications is in a connected state (step 297) and the connection between server and primary applications is "idle" (step 301), then the backup node may seamlessly and transparently assume the primary nodes responsibilities (step 305). Otherwise, if the applications are not connected or the connection is non-idle, the relevant sockets are reset (step 310). An idle connection is as defined above, and relates to the absence of a queue of data packets in the protocol process application.
In one embodiment of the present invention a relatively high level language, C, is employed to implement the software associated with the present invention, however, any language may be used. Further one skilled in the art will appreciate that any software instructions used to implement the invention described herein (code), data, data structures and any computer hardware incorporating the same form an integrated whole, together with any other similar structures in the network system, to form the present invention.
The foregoing description is offered for illustrative purposes only. Numerous modifications and variations may be readily apparent to those skilled in the art, while still falling within the spirit and scope of the invention as claimed herein below.
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- THE SECOND VATICAN COUNCIL'S. DECLARATION ON THE JEWS. A Background Report.
- www.ajcarchives.org
- The Catholic Dimensions of Legal Study: The Catholic University
- Abstract: This comprehensive history of the Second Vatican Council is projected for five volumes. Volumes 1-3 have been published to date.
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Art Nation presenter Fenella Kernebone meets MONA founder David Walsh and finds his creation confounds the rules of collecting.
When Glenn Lowry, director of the hugely successful Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York, was in Australia last year he gave a speech at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) in Melbourne all about what public institutions, museums and galleries need to do, can do, indeed must do, if they want to survive and stay relevant.
Its an interesting set of parameters that Lowry set out. Among other things, he argued that a vast majority of a museum visitors are and will be online, which means that museums have to embrace this just as much as they consider the business of collecting and showing art.
He also pointed out that museums and galleries that display contemporary art have to be capable of dealing with a global environment. Meaning, art comes from everywhere, so they have to figure out some kind of strategy to address and represent this. Liz Ann McGregor from the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney was quick to point out that the MCAs strategy is to think Australian when it comes to collecting as would many other local galleries - and that to me makes perfect sense.
But lets go to MONA the Museum of Old and New Art in Hobart. This brand new, very speccy space, has architecture thatll blow your mind and artworks both old and new thatll get your brain twisting - and theres not a serious title or info card in sight. Wandering around the gallery and chatting to David Walsh, who has put up the dollars to create MONA, the only thing I can say is that although it ticks most of Lowrys boxes, I dont think Walsh or MONA could really give a toss (well not entirely).
The collection is global, but theres no apparent strategy. Its simply work that appeals to its owner, who has decided to build a large space to show it off and thought maybe you might like to see it too - at no cost (by the way, the entry is free).
Its a massive undertaking and a hugely altruistic thing to do, although having interviewed Walsh for Art Nation, I'm not sure hed like to consider it that way. Or then again maybe he would. Throughout the interview he did mention a whole bunch of other reviews and articles about MONA that had come out and the responses both good and bad. So although there seems to be an air of detachment, he does seem to care about about the varying responses (which, going by the people wandering through the space when I was there, were overwhelmingly positive).
This place is like nothing Ive seen before in Australia, simply because it can be more daring than publicly funded institutions. So even though it has all the trappings of a museum (ie theres art) everything can be a little more skewed and it makes it way more exciting. For example, there are works that are graphic or sexual (plenty of vaginas in this space, believe me), but there are no warning signs protecting our young minds. Theres a smattering of known and unknown works, large scale, small, sexy, cute, smelly and even meaty - and of course theres plenty of old mixed in with the new.
But lets get back to the boss. When I mentioned to a few people that I was heading to MONA and would be interviewing Walsh, there were a few, "Good luck with that"-type remarks.
What was the luck needed for? Was this bloke a bit prickly? He didnt seem to be on the day, but then again unlike Liz Ann McGregor, or Tony Sweeney or who else, Edmund Capon and the other directors of all the big art museums here in Australia, who probably do need to keep their cool even when presented with predictable questions or a line of questioning they dont like, Walsh doesnt have to. He doesnt have a board of directors breathing down his neck, because this is his own cabinet of curiosities on a mammoth scale.
What he does have is a half-sized tennis court on the roof that acts as a rather unassuming entrance to the museum. So unassuming, in fact, that when I was heading in there myself, a family with two kids in strollers asked me where the entrance was, as they were walking the wrong way. But I bet once they made it inside, they knew they were going to come back (as am I), because its a great experience.
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travelsinmymind :
07 Mar 2011 7:54:18pm
I thought MONA was incredible, with architecture that perfectly suits the gallery as a space where people can let their subconscious reign for a while.
Taste and Place :
16 Feb 2011 12:20:39pm
There's one picture missing from the exhibition!
Lan :
13 Feb 2011 9:56:22pm
I have a visit to this fabulous museum planned. However, I took slight offense at the interviewer implying we have never been exposed to "art" of any form down here in this little backwater! Tasmania has been a rich, artistic stage for many talented people and the implication that we Tasmanians haven't come across art of this caliber before came across as slightly condescending. Parochialism was a bit too rich in the interview technique....Sydney and Melbourne aren't the only cities where one can view artistic brilliance!
Daniel Moszkowicz :
18 Feb 2011 4:13:28pm
"Artistic brilliance" as you put it - occurs in Melbourne and Sydney frequently. Some of it is even free of charge to witness and bask in its glory. Tasmania, on the other hand, is not really a name associated with "art" - in the way the Sydney CBD isn't known as a place for an excellent dairy operation or for its pristine trout streams. With the considerable distances involved in heading to the city centres in Tasmania, it's likely that many people wouldn't bother to go and see great art, even if it did drop by for a showing.
I think you'll agree if you're familiar with Fanella's work - that she is always a fair and clear presenter and interviewer, and I would suggest that you are reading too much into it, and finding offense needlessly.
It is easy to understand that Tasmanians wouldn't - in fact - have come across art of this calibre before as it's not a destination where art of this calibre goes, let alone - do go - the people from the largely rural areas areas of Tasmania.
I think the Tasmanians which have seen such art before, have largely seen it on the mainland.
Also, to support your argument, you fail to outline the "many" talented people who have been so prominent on the "artistic stage" in Tasmania.
So no, I agree with you, Sydney and Melbourne aren't the only places etc... - it's just that Tasmania is unlikely to be that place.
Daniel Moszkowicz. The Troll-King of Chatsitea.
Veronica Foale :
08 Feb 2011 3:08:13pm
I love MONA and think it's absolutely fantastic. I've been three times now and have plans to go back again, hopefully this week. I've also been telling everyone else that they need to see it too. It's art made exciting and accesible and I can't thank Walsh enough.
I've been raving about it on my own site, quite a bit too, it inspired quite a few pieces of writing, so I'm even more grateful.
Cameron :
08 Feb 2011 1:55:39pm
It's very easy with the guide to avoid all the graphic content of the museum. I took my seven year old daughter and she had a great experience at MONA.
David Walsh :
07 Feb 2011 7:17:06pm
Half-sized? I don't do half-sized.
We do give parents the option of avoiding the "dirty" stuff (funny that violence is more tolerated than sex). We give everybody a guide with a child-friendly route when they enter.
08 Feb 2011 12:39:59pm
I agree I have seen your nude portrait in the catalogue....


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