Hi,
If you connect all the remote switches to one master switch, then each remote switch has 1Gb/s uplink to the master switch, however this scenario means that your master switch becomes the focalpoint of your network and effectively becomes a single point of failure for your whole infrastructure - if the master fails, your whole network is broken.
You could use the daisychain method, but include a link from the last switch back to the first (in a big ring if you like), spanning-tree will automatically put one of the inter-switch link ports into a blocking state to prevent a loop, In this scenario - if any switch (or link) fails, the ring topology means that connectivity is still achieved to the remainder of the switches. - however, this topology means the whole stack of switches will share a 1Gb/s backone (2Gb/s can be achieved by using 2 links between switch configured as an Etherchannel bundle.
A Third option you have is to create 2 master switches with a link between them, and have a link from each remote switches to each of the master switches - this option uses the most number of switch ports to create the network backbone, but will offer 1gb/s uplink to the master switches - and provide master switch redundancy.
Hope this helps,
Rowan
