I know it is functionally immaterial
There's nothing wrong with Master/slave. We also read man pages, shove male plugs into female ports, fork and kill children, and use dozens of other odd words to describe perfectly harmless things.
There's nothing wrong with Master/slave. We also read man pages, shove male plugs into female ports, fork and kill children, and use dozens of other odd words to describe perfectly harmless things.
There's nothing essential about master/slave so why not just switch to primary/replica?
Neither Master nor Slave is a derogatory word. And using the concept of slavery to describe a relationship between inanimate objects in a technical context is not an endorsement of such practices between humans.