[Linux-ha-dev] About movement of the Quorum control.

[Andrew Beekhof]

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb at novell.com> wrote:
> On 2010-08-27T09:53:32, Andrew Beekhof <andrew at beekhof.net> wrote:
>
>> > However, it is very difficult for us to wait for corosync to be stable.
>> Its pretty close these days.
>> It does lack ucast and bcast support, but there are plans to address
>> that outside of corosync.
>
> The current corosync is really quite stable, certainly as stable as CCM.
> If it isn't, there's at least someone we can ask for active help.
>
> bcast is handled by corosync, by the way; and unicast support may also
> be coming.
>
> I'm curious what you mean by "outside of corosync", though - how would
> the network protocol be addressed outside of corosync?

http://www.linuxplumbersconf.org/2010/ocw/proposals/1065

Basically its intended to be a generically useful layer sitting
underneath corosync.
Steve was skeptical at first but is apparently on board with the idea
now - to the point where its the preferred approach for providing
ucast capabilities.