On 2015-08-05 15:31:03 +0200 (+0200), Philipp Marek wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > Pacemaker is *the* Linux HA Stack. > > > > [...] > > > > > > > > Can you expand on this assertion? It doesn't look to me like it's > > > > part of the Linux source tree and I see strong evidence to suggest > > > > it's released and distributed completely separately from the kernel. > > > > > > If you read "Linux" as "GNU/Linux" or "Linux platform", instead of > > > "Linux kernel", it's what I meant. > > [...] > > > > Okay, that makes slightly more sense. So you're implying that > > Pacemaker is the only HA stack available for Linux-based platforms, > > or that it's the most popular, or... I guess I'm mostly thrown by > > your use of the definite article "the" (which you emphasized, so it > > seems like you must mean there are effectively no others?). > > Well, SUSE and Redhat (7) use Pacemaker by default, Debian/Ubuntu have it > (along with others)... > > That gives it quite some market share, wouldn't you think? > > Yes, I guess the "most popular" meaning is a good match here.
I see, so in the same way that "nano is *the* Linux text editor" (Debian/Ubuntu configure it as the default, SUSE and Redhat have it packaged). Popularity alone doesn't seem like a great criterion for making these sorts of technology choices. -- Jeremy Stanley __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev