I agree with Garrett and Liane. I would like to keep the proposed community focused on HA Clusters, not HA in general.
Thanks, Nick Garrett D'Amore wrote: > 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> ogb-discuss mailing list >> ogb-discuss at opensolaris.org >> http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ogb-discuss >> > -- Nicholas Solter, Solaris Cluster Development http://blogs.sun.com/nsolter
