On 2/11/2010 at 12:22 PM, "Robinson, Eric" <[email protected]> wrote: > My happy little Heartbeat R1 clusters have been humming along for years. > Then a couple of days ago, along comes Lars saying, "Please at least > give Pacemaker a try." So I go to the Pacemaker Wiki and the FAQ says I > should use it with OpenAIS because the heartbeat project "has been > basically unmaintained for years." But then I go to the heartbeat Wiki > and it says, "We're alive and well!" > > Since my contented little world is getting shaken, can someone please > clarify for me... is heartbeat alive and well, or not? Should I really > switch to OpenAIS?
A moderately short answer to your question is: - The kind folks at LINBIT have assumed stewardship of the Heartbeat project. For details, please see: http://lists.linux-ha.org/pipermail/linux-ha/2009-November/038969.html) - AFAIK, nobody has any plans to add significant features to Heartbeat, or extend its codebase. This doesn't mean bugs won't get fixed, but... - ...the general expectation is that people will switch to (or have switched to), the Corosync/OpenAIS messaging layer, plus Pacemaker CRM, because that's where all the active development, maintenance and support is. This is because: - Things have moved a long way since HB version 1. HB version 2 included what is now called Pacemaker, and is vastly more flexible that v1; the last release of HB 2 prior to Pacemaker being split into a separate project was about two years ago. HB 3.0.2 has just been released as the first official release in the 3.0 series, see: http://lists.linux-ha.org/pipermail/linux-ha/2010-February/039455.html - This means that you will have difficulty finding people to support HB v1 and old v2 deployments. That being said, if your clusters are working... Hope that unmuddies the waters somewhat. Regards, Tim -- Tim Serong <[email protected]> Senior Clustering Engineer, Novell Inc. _______________________________________________ Linux-HA mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems
