On 9/3/07, Junko IKEDA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> > NAKAHIRA Kazutomo wrote:
> > > We wrote a Shared Disk File EXclusiveness Control Program, called
> > > "SF-EX" for short, could prevent a destruction of data on
> > > shared disk file system due to Split-Brain.
> > >
> > > This program consists of CUI commands written in the C and RA,
> > > the former is used for managing and monitoring shared disk status
> > > and the latter is the same as other common RAs.
>
> > This program would be even more useful if it were available as a quorum
> > module.  Have you thought about making it a quorum module?
>
> We tried the quorumd, and noticed that we had to rewrite principle parts of
> SF-EX.
> SF-EX which works as RA checks the lock status regularly.
> and quorum server module also go the round periodically.
> but it seems that quorumd_getquorum() starts up without any apparent
> connection to a quorum server.
> Maybe it's just as well we're going to implement some exclusive algorithms
> right there,
> it might be related to CCM problem, I'm not sure.
>
> If it's possible to handle this function as RA,
> could you consider introduction of SF-EX into the next release as the first
> step?

I think that should be possible
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