On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Florian Haas <florian.h...@linbit.com> wrote: > On 2011-04-15 08:23, Andrew Beekhof wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 7:51 AM, Florian Haas <florian.h...@linbit.com> >> wrote: >>> Andrew, >>> >>> the documentation states that unless your distro ships >>> dlm_controld.pcmk, you should be installing cman and running Pacemaker >>> on that. I presume this is because (at least on Fedora and RHEL), cman >>> ships with the standard dlm_controld that now supports Pacemaker. >> >> Other way around, Pacemaker 1.1.x supports cman which means it can use >> the standard dlm_controld. > > Gotcha. > >>> Now, for packagers on distros that don't ship cman, is it a viable >>> option to just package dlm_controld from >>> git://git.fedorahosted.org/dlm.git, and ship that to support >>> Pacemaker-managed OCFS2? >> >> Yes. This is what SLES does and will presumably continue to do. >> Err, assuming the patches are still in there.
I just checked, they're not. So if you want the non-cman version, you need to restore the pacemaker pieces. > > Right. I asked because SLES currently builds from Cluster 3.0.x sources > iirc, which do include the .pcmk variants -- question was whether it was > OK to build from current versions that just have the "standard" > controld. Based on your answer I assume it is. It is, but you'd need cman in that case. Personally I find it very disappointing that the pacemaker variant was removed from the source just because Fedora no longer planned to build/package it. > > Andres, does that answer your question from the IRC discussion we had > yesterday? > >> There is no intention from my side to prevent the .pcmk variants from >> working in the future. > > OK. > >> The only other thing to note is that eventually everything (pacemaker, >> *FS, dlm_controld) will hook into the corosync quorum plugin instead >> of cman or the pacemaker plugin. >> >> Timeline for that should be in the next year or so (after much >> additional testing) IIUC. > > OK. Thanks! > > Cheers, > Florian > > > _______________________________________________ > Pacemaker mailing list: Pacemaker@oss.clusterlabs.org > http://oss.clusterlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/pacemaker > > Project Home: http://www.clusterlabs.org > Getting started: http://www.clusterlabs.org/doc/Cluster_from_Scratch.pdf > Bugs: > http://developerbugs.linux-foundation.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Pacemaker > > _______________________________________________ Pacemaker mailing list: Pacemaker@oss.clusterlabs.org http://oss.clusterlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/pacemaker Project Home: http://www.clusterlabs.org Getting started: http://www.clusterlabs.org/doc/Cluster_from_Scratch.pdf Bugs: http://developerbugs.linux-foundation.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Pacemaker
