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").
>
>
>
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