[Linux-HA] OCFS2 and Heartbeat2

[Lars Marowsky-Bree]

On 2006-08-11T13:52:53, Matthias Dahl <mdmlha at designassembly.de> wrote:

> > In addition to what Robert said, you'll need to pull various patches
> > from the SUSE kernel tree to make this work - otherwise OCFS2 won't
> > accept the membership events from user-space (heartbeat).
> 
> I knew there was more than one catch to it. :-) I guess those patches (or even 
> the SLES kernel) aren't freely available somewhere on the net on a up2date 
> basis, are they? I've looked through the novell website as well as on 
> opensuse.org but couldn't find anything useful.

Oh, of course they are. We are an Open Source company! They are to be
found at ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/kernel/kotd/ (kernel of the
day) and the suse.com mirror sites.

> > (We're still working with Oracle to merge them upstream.)
> Is there any timeframe when a new ocfs2 release will incorporate all necessary 
> changes?

Hm, best to ask on the ocfs2-devel list, which I am guilty of not having
followed en detail it in the last brief months.



Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Brée

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