Hi, Andrew. Thanks for the reply. Hope you are well.
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, Andrew Beekhof wrote:
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 18:11, David Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
[...]
My guess (but it is
just a guess) is that pacemaker probably no longer builds on non-Linux
machines. Can anyone confirm/refute this?
If it doesn't, then it certainly wasn't intentional and I'd welcome any patches
Perhaps I should have said "guess ... on some of the non-Linux platforms
that the previous heartbeat releases had built on". (Or something like
that.)
If it can be generally agreed, in principle, that both "heartbeat" and
"pacemaker" should continue to be portable, then I would be happy to
continue to assist in that. But I am no longer be in a position to lead.
A couple of other points:
1. The pacemaker people seem to be preferring OpenAIS to heartbeat as their
underlying comms layer, and I have no idea how portable OpenAIS is. So that
openais supports just as many platforms as heartbeat. [...]
Good to know. Thanks.
[...]
I've no idea whether there is any compatibility overlap between pacemaker
and OHAC. I suspect, sadly, that there might not be (i.e. that the
clustering world has split into two (or more) parts).
Exactly what kind of split are you referring to here?
I do hope you're not suggesting an all-or-nothing-one-size-fits-all
cluster stack, like Heartbeat (or RedHat's cluster2) tried to be, is a
good thing.
No. I had wondering/speculating about compatibility/overlap etc. between
(for instance)
(1) pacemaker/heartbeat/OpenAIS etc. (a natural fit for Linux)
(2) Solaris/OHAC etc. (a (presumably) natural fit for Solaris)
(3) Other such 'families'.
And perhaps pooling/sharing of scarce development resources (person-time)
across those.
And if people want to run Pacemaker on top of a OHAC messaging and
membership layer, thats also fine (obviously i'm in no position to
drive that - but I'd also definitely not hold it back either) because
we have the infrastructure in place to support it.
Sounds good. Glad that the inter-operability and portability doors
are open.
As mentioned earlier, I'm no longer in a position to do any significant
development work. Naturally, if, in our local use of heartbeat/pacemaker
(which is now primarily on Linux rather than Solaris), we hit any bugs,
we'll try to submit reports and/or patches.
Thanks for the reply. Best wishes.
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