On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 5:37 AM, Matthew O'Connor <m...@ecsorl.com> wrote: > > On 05/22/2012 03:30 AM, Andrew Beekhof wrote: > > We were talking about GFS2 and Pacemaker but the same applies to OCFS2. > If you're just using ocfs2 there is no need for cman. But if you want > ocfs2 /and/ a cluster manager - you want them all using the same > membership and quorum data. > > Yes, I remember reading that. In my situation, I am torn between what works > now and what "will" work tomorrow. My current choice of distro has some > interesting...irregularities, shall we say? Not to throw myself into the > middle of a "get a real distro" holy war, but: one release has working > Corosync/Pacemaker but doesn't seem to support cman integration (even though > it carries the packages for it), while a later release supports cman and > (apparently) not corosync/pacemaker alone,
cman is "just" a corosync plugin. so for basic cluster, if cman is supported so is plain corosync. You "just" shouldn't use it with a cluster filesystem. > but pacemaker dies a horrible > death when I put nodes into standby (not necessarily cman-related, I > realize). Um, that shouldn't happen. Did you file a bug for that? > Part of me wants to just build the whole stack from the sources > and get exactly what I want, while other part wants to save myself the > angst, time, and human-error of doing such a thing, and make the provided > packages work. > > I am probably trying too hard to future-proof, and either need to stick with > what works now, switch distributions or work harder to solve the outstanding > problems of the latest distro release's cluster packages. > > Anyway, thanks for the info - it is most happily received! > -- Matthew > _______________________________________________ Pacemaker mailing list: Pacemaker@oss.clusterlabs.org http://oss.clusterlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/pacemaker Project Home: http://www.clusterlabs.org Getting started: http://www.clusterlabs.org/doc/Cluster_from_Scratch.pdf Bugs: http://bugs.clusterlabs.org
