On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 10:58 +0200, Hervé Gautier wrote:
> Thank Steven for your answers.
> 
> What do you mean by "cluster engine" ? Will you qualify Pacemarker as a 
> "cluster engine" ?

A cluster engine is a set of services which provide a framework for
"service engines" to operate.  Pacemaker is a "service engine".  To
understand more fully the semantics we use, read:

http://ols.fedoraproject.org/OLS/Reprints-2008/dake-reprint.pdf

> If I understand you, OpenAIS can not be used as a standalone library.

openais 0.80.X is standalone.  IN openais 0.9x+ openais becomes service
engines to corosync.
>  
> Any corosync process(es) should run in order to use OpenAIS ?

Depends on version, but corosync 0.95 should be used to run openais 0.94
currently.

> I have quickly seen some patch for a quorum_vote C function/file. Is a 
> cluster is running after a quorum vote ?
> 

The way corosync works, quorum is intended as a notification to
services.  It does block new API calls for services which require quorum
to operate.


> Sorry for all these questions, but I haven't seen any documentation 
> about corosync and its architecture.

Read the OLS paper as a start.

> As I am interested by cluster issue I try to understand your project 
> because it seems to be the last hope to have a decent cluster, as 
> FailSafe has no more support, and heartbeat (v1 and v2) does not match 
> with my opinion of a cluster manager for non aware HA applications. I 
> haven't try the latest Red Hat Cluster, but the earlier version was not 
> enought advanced for me.
> 

Pacemaker is solid, but not yet available on corosync.  I think Andrew
will be working on it shortly.  It is mostly just a massive search and
replace process.

> Thank in advance for your lights.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -Rv
> 
> Steven Dake a écrit :
> > Corosync is a cluster engine which uses plugins (called service engines)
> > and provides services to the plugin users.
> >
> > OpenAIS is designed now as plugins to the corosync cluster engine.
> > OpenAIS now consists of service engine plugins as well as libraries the
> > user links with that connects to those service engines.
> >
> > I hope that clears up the architecture a bit.
> >
> > Regards
> > -steve
> >
> >   
> 
> -- 
> Hervé GAUTIER
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