From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lars Marowsky-Bree Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 21:38:48 +0200 Subject: [Ocfs2-devel] [RFC] Fencing harness for OCFS2 In-Reply-To: <44767695.7000203@google.com> References: <44767695.7000203@google.com> Message-ID: <20060530193848.GP17040@marowsky-bree.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com On 2006-05-25T20:31:33, Daniel Phillips wrote: > Goals: > - Lightweight, kernel based fencing harness > - Support pluggable fencing methods > - Pluggable methods take policy out of kernel > - No reinvented wheels, use kernel modules > - Also accomodate user space fencing methods > - Divide work appropriately between kernel and user space > - Obey memory deadlock prevention rules > - Obey safe module unload rules > - Handle multiple clusters per node Sorry we're chiming in so late, but with Jeff's user-space membership patches, we have user-space driven fencing working with heartbeat 2. Sincerely, Lars Marowsky-Br?e -- High Availability & Clustering SUSE Labs, Research and Development SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - A Novell Business -- Charles Darwin "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"