Re: [ANNOUNCE] Minneapolis Cluster Summit, July 29-30

[Daniel Phillips <phillips@redhat.com>]

Hi Christoph,

On Monday 05 July 2004 11:09, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 02:09:29AM -0400, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > Red Hat and (the former) Sistina Software are pleased to announce
> > that we will host a two day kickoff workshop on GFS and Cluster
> > Infrastructure in Minneapolis, July 29 and 30, not too long after
> > OLS. We call this the "Cluster Summit" because it goes well beyond
> > GFS, and is really about building a comprehensive cluster
> > infrastructure for Linux, which will hopefully be a reality by the
> > time Linux 2.8 arrives. If we want that, we have to start now, and
> > we have to work like fiends, time is short.  We offer as a starting
> > point, functional code for a half-dozen major, generic cluster
> > subsystems that Sistina has had under development for several
> > years.
>
> Don't you think it's a little too short-term?

Not really.  It's several months later than it should have been if 
anything.

> I'd rather see the 
> cluster software that could be merged mid-term on KS (and that seems
> to be only OCFS2 so far)

Don't you think we ought to take a look at how OCFS and GFS might share 
some of the same infrastructure, for example, the DLM and cluster 
membership services?

"Think twice, merge once"

Regards,

Daniel