On 2010-10-14T08:23:09, Vadym Chepkov <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sorry for barge in, but I actually started with corosync, but had to
> "backout", so to speak.
> The major reason - lack of support for PPC architecture, it just doesn't work
> there.
> I was hoping since RedHat fully supports this platform things will get better
> with RHEL6,
> but to my unpleasant surprise instead of fixing it, they just decided to not
> build corosync on anything but Intel.
For what it is worth, and not to start a "my distro is better than your
distro", corosync _is_ supported on the SUSE Linux Enterprise port to
the ppc64 architecture.
> Redundant rings also don't work in corosync yet and "bonding"
> suggested as workaround won't save you from a switch failure.
Active/active rings seem to work well enough - but they do not recover
without manual intervention.
And bonding _does_ save you from switch failure; mode 3 (broadcast) at
least.
Regards,
Lars
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