[Openais] questions regarding openais-0.80.1

Steven Dake sdake at redhat.com
Tue Sep 19 23:42:41 PDT 2006


On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 23:16 -0700, Steven Dake wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 08:05 +0200, Hans Feldt wrote:
> > edrt wrote:
> > 
> > > I'm going to deploy openais in a product, the minimum functionality wanted is:
> > > 2N model + su failover & autorepair on 2 node configuration. Can previous 
> > > openais release support it? And which version do you recommend? BTW, can I 
> > > know the estimated timeframe openais HEAD will support multinode configuration.
> > 
> > I don't think previous versions support what you need. The release of
> > "Wilson" is not decided but I guess will be delayed until the services
> > contained in it has reached some critical content and/or stability. This
> > is open source...
> > 
> edrt,
> 
> The requirements for Wilson are production services of Cluster
> Membership, Eventing, Checkpointing, Closed Process Groups, and Extended
> Virtual Synchrony passthrough interface.  Also it supports production
> redundant ring operation.  All other services are not supported at this
> time and are only present for developers to get a feel for how they
> work.  We chose not to remove them entirely from the tree, but they
> should be considered buggy and not ready for deployment (AMF included).
> The tree is essentially frozen to any new content except things that fix
> critical bugs and do not change backward compatibility with other Wilson
> releases.
> 
> What you desire will be in the next release of openais called Humphreys
> (1.0).  I had hoped this would happen by year end, but distributed
> locking and messaging are as of yet incomplete and we are still working
> out a few subtle issues in Wilson which take priority.  Humphrey
> requirements are Wilson + production AMF, production locking, production
> messaging.  Of the remaining services to implement, AMF (which you
> desire) is highest priority and will be fully solved next in line after
> Wilson bug fixes.
> 

Please substitute my use of Wilson above for Whitetank (0.80) and
Humprehys for Wilson (1.0).

Sorry for the confusion.

> Regards
> -steve
> 
> 
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