[cgl_discussion] Re: NFS Server Failover with kimberlite?

[Steven Dake]

Brian,

Is Red Hat cluster manager open source?  If so, we can create a link to 
it in the PoC references.

Thanks
-steve

Brian Stevens wrote:

>On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 13:16, Steven Dake wrote:
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>>Zhu, Yi wrote:
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>>>Hi,
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>>>I'd like to know are there any distros interested in kimberlite
>>>[http://oss.missioncriticallinux.com/projects/kimberlite/] so far?
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>>>>From Steven's MV project analysis, I got MV doesn't like it. But
>>>does it mean MV doesn't like the NFS Server Failover requirement?
>>>How about if heartbeat (http://linux-ha.org) provides this feature?
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>>It is not that MontaVista does not like Kimberlite. It looks like a
>>reasonable solution. The problem is maintenance, ie: it doesn't look
>>like it is actively being maintained and developed. NFS Server failover
>>is definately a useful feature, but that feature should have some
>>ongoing support from the community to be a likely supported project.
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>Kimberlite is an unmaintained project for the past 2 or so years.
>Red Hat cluster manager is based off of it, in part since most of the
>key developers of Kimberlite now work here. So that will be our
>continued direction for HA, whether it be for NFS or anything else.
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>Brian
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