On Friday 10 December 2010 16:40:16 Serge Dubrouski wrote: > On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 7:47 AM, Les Mikesell <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 12/10/10 8:32 AM, Vadym Chepkov wrote: > >> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Igor Chudov<[email protected]> wrote: > >>>>> This does not at all back up your claim that there is no > >>>>> documentation. All this shows is that EPEL5 (what you tried it on) > >>>>> is different from Fedora-13 (what the guide was written for). > >>>> > >>>> Who would use fedora for anything that needed a highly available > >>>> server? > >>> > >>> I would not, as a former Fedora user. Fedora likes to mess with configs > >>> in a way that makes system updates unreliable. > >> > >> And you don't have to anymore. > >> RHEL6 is out > > > > Still waiting for CentOS - and maybe even 6.1 for the usual round of > > release issue fixes before I'm touching any of my running servers. But, > > more to the topic here, is there a guide that someone can follow to get > > something working on a reliable system? > > There is plenty of very good guides and links to them were posted here > several times. > > Guys, you know, all of that sounds like nonsense. Just consider these > numbers: > > 1. Price for Oracle RAC in Enterprise Edition in $23000 per processor. > 2. Price for Oracle classes for Oracle RAC (5 days) is $3000 > > Prices for Veritas VCS clustering software not much cheaper. > Prices for NetApp appliance are in the same range. > > Here you get an amazing product for free and then start whining that > it takes a week to get it deployed, or start complaining that it's > impossible to get something reliable out of it. It's a nonsense. There > are thousands of installation of Heartbeat/Pacemaker around the world. > So yes, it is possible to build a reliable system. And since when > spending a week for building a complex clustered computing system is > considered as "too long". > > But Ok, your time is precious and you can't waste a week. Then hire > somebody who can do it for you. LinBit, Novell, RedHat all provide > professional services and commercial support. Her me, if you don't > like them :-) But yet again it won't be cheap. > > And last but not least. It's an Open Source world. You don't like > something - then fix it. You don't like documentation? Fine, learn the > product and write your own set of documentation and share it with > others. Open Source community will really appreciate that. > > But please, please stop whining and insulting people who puts their > time to make something that is really good and that you can get for > free. > > Please watch this if you have time and sorry for spam > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r1CZTLk-Gk >
Awesome video. Gonna keep that close if one of my customers feels he needs to start wining again ;-) B. _______________________________________________ Linux-HA mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems
