Liane Praza wrote:
> "Brian Gupta" writes:
>
>> One thought? (Sorry to comment late in the process. Please ignore if this is
>> already ratified) Why not just create an HA community? It has been indicated
>> that various technologies related to HA would be appropriate to discuss
>> within this community. Why include clusters in the name. I suspect that
>> sun-cluster would be an appropriate project within an HA community.
>>
>
> My thought as an interested party, but not a member of the proposed
> Core Contributors, is that an HA community would be too broadly scoped to
> help drive the technology forwards. There are also already thriving
> communities which focus on recovery from hardware errors (FMA) and
> software errors (SMF) on a single node. A HA Clusters community could
> focus on the multi-node aspects. While there's certainly some cooperation
> which will occur on individual projects, day to day questions and operation
> of each community would not be well served by conflating these three
> distinct areas.
>
> The FMA community already explicitly rejected the OGB proposal for
> SMF and FMA to merge into a "RAS" community (details available on
> the OGB forum), and I agree with their reasons. I don't think there's
> anything new and compelling to suggest we revisit the previous decision
> to dilute the focus of existing communities.
>
> I know you weren't necessarily proposing a merger, but think it would
> be a natural outcome of attempting to broaden the scope of this new
> community beyond the commonly-understood Cluster scope.
>
+1. If you start thinking about HA in general, then you start having to
include things like ZFS (raidz), IP multipathing, 802.3ad failover,
NWAM, mpio, dynamic reconfiguration, and probably a bunch of other
things that I don't even care about right now.
Call your community a "Cluster" community and it keeps it focussed.
_EVERYONE_ in the OpenSolaris community cares about HA, and we should
all be doing what we can to make improvements to RAS. But the Cluster
aspect of that is much more directed, and I think there will be far
greater cohesion in such a group.
-- Garrett
> liane
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