[Linux-ha-dev] USENIX Configuration Management Summit

2012-06-04 Thread Alan Robertson
Hi, For those of you interested in managing servers beyond high-availability (which is likely many of you), you might be interested in next week's USENIX Configuration Management Summit. It will be held in Boston, and will feature a series of interesting talks, including one by me on the Ass

[Linux-ha-dev] The role of dependencies in managing computer systems

2012-06-04 Thread Alan Robertson
Hi, I recently wrote a blog post on the importance of dependencies in managing computer systems. Of course, a small number of dependencies are modelled very nicely by things like Pacemaker, but the picture is much bigger than those dependencies. Read more here: http://techthoughts.typepad

Re: [Linux-ha-dev] [RFC] IPaddr2: Proposal patch to support the dual stack of IPv4 and IPv6.

2012-06-04 Thread Alan Robertson
On 06/04/2012 12:32 AM, Keisuke MORI wrote: > Hi Alan, > > Thank you for your comments. > It's an interesting idea, but I don't think we need to care about IPv4 > link-local addresses > because users can configure using the same manner as a "regular" IP address. > (and it's used very rarely) > > In