>Now where you lose me is where you start duplicating scheduling, logging, security controls, and process management a cluster level and fragment my systems yet

>Now where you lose me is where you start duplicating scheduling, logging, security controls, and process management a cluster level and fragment my systems yet-again. That is sort of what we're talking about when we talk about unix philosophy. If your daemons for handling all those aren't tightly coupled then it's easier to use the same tools for different tasks.