On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 16:04, David Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 5 Sep 2008, Paul Walsh wrote: > >> Don't get me wrong. I'm a great fan of Heartbeat and am keep to see it >> develop and make further use of it. I now have 3 clusters up and running >> with 2.1.3 and DRBD and if I could get it working on Solaris (SPARC) >> with Oracle and our EMC SAN, I'd have more! :) > > Heartbeat reached reasonably good shape for Solaris about a year ago. > But it sorely needs folk such as you to help us keep it that way. I think > there are quite a few people who use it, but the number of people going > deeper and helping to debug and maintain it is considerably fewer. (The > fingers of one hand are probably more than sufficent for counting > purposes...) > > Since the re-working to separate the 'heartbeat' and 'pacemaker' > components, it is likely that "bit rot" may have set in,
Heartbeat had bit-rot long before the CRM arrived, the entire telecom directory for example, so the split had zero impact on that. Although things look to be getting better, Lars spent a bunch of time in the last few weeks removing dead code. > and I (whose > heartbeat work is principally spare-time and voluntary) haven't had the > chance to keep track of creeping buglets. > > So if you can spare any time to building heartbeat and/or pacemaker on > Solaris, and doing a little investigation into any problems that might > arise, then please feel encouraged to do so (probably preferentially > reporting to "linux-ha-dev" rather than "linux-ha"). > > > > -- > > : David Lee I.T. Service : > : Senior Systems Programmer Computer Centre : > : UNIX Team Leader Durham University : > : South Road : > : http://www.dur.ac.uk/t.d.lee/ Durham DH1 3LE : > : Phone: +44 191 334 2752 U.K. : > _______________________________________________ > Linux-HA mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha > See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems > _______________________________________________ Linux-HA mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems
