I have a 2 master and 6 slave MySQL database environment. One master is hot and the other master is considered cold and is just running as a slave. I don't want to do a real master - master where both are replicating from each other. During fail over I want the cold master to start taking the write hits and the failed master to just stop until we can fix and make it a cold master/slave. Is this possible and/or correct?

Thanks

ref - [more info about MMM](http://mysql-mmm.org/)