On 2013-02-25T11:42:46, "Lentes, Bernd" <bernd.len...@helmholtz-muenchen.de>
wrote:
Hi Bernd,
> in the german IT newspaper "Linux-Magazin" 2/13 was an article, which says
> that the future of DLM (Distributed Lock Manager) is unclear.
> I'd like to create a HA cluster with two nodes, accessing concurrently one FC
> SAN with OCFS2. I need DLM.
> I wonder that the future is unclear because, afaik, DLM is integrated in the
> kernel. If it is not properly maintained, of course i would not like to use
> it.
The article is a bit ... exaggerating. The in-kernel DLM of course
continues to be mainainted, and OCFS2 (in user-space mode) will continue
to consume it too. (Just like GFS2.)
It also accusses SLE HA of sticking to an old DLM version, which isn't
true either - it's true we backport changes selectively (and can't break
the wire protocol, which affects the controld user-space code we can use
there), but that's the whole point of a "stable" enterprise
distribution.
It's a bit alarmist. But the author should be participating on this
list, that should be a fruitful discussion ;-)
Regards,
Lars
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