On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Lars Marowsky-Bree <l...@novell.com> wrote: > On 2011-04-15T08:23:09, Andrew Beekhof <and...@beekhof.net> wrote: > >> > 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. > > We ship the pacemaker-based DLM, yes. > > I'd actually not mind following this upstream path too, but I doubt it > can be done in a rolling-upgrade fashion? > > Also, is the cman-corosync thing something to stay forever, or is it > just an intermediate step?
intermediate. just an alternate stepping stone to the pure corosync version described below. > >> 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. > > That probably answers my question above; so on SLE, we'd skip the 'cman' > bit (and stick to pacemaker's plugin), and then directly go to the > "fully converged upstream" in the next major release. > >> Timeline for that should be in the next year or so (after much >> additional testing) IIUC. > > We just got ourselves a major topic for the conference in October ;-) > > > Regards, > Lars > > -- > Architect Storage/HA, OPS Engineering, Novell, Inc. > SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) > "Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes." -- Oscar Wilde > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
