[Linux-HA] nfs-kernel-server in heartbeat 2

[Andrew Beekhof]

On 7/12/07, Adrian Overbury <adrian at inomial.com> wrote:
> Look, guys, don't get me wrong, this is just my experience from the
> past.  We try to avoid using builds that haven't been tested for the
> specific OS we're using.  That's just common-sense in my company.  I
> haven't asked my boss about this specific instance, and he's a
> reasonable guy, so chances are that things could be different here.

For things that tie into the kernel, that makes total sense.
But heartbeat is in user-space and only very rare (as in one kernel
_ever_ from redhat) scheduler bugs will bring us down.

I would also question how much additional testing the vendor is actually doing.

> Of course, if I could find something like 2.0.7 built for Dapper, I'd
> be quite happy.  Oh well, we can but dream.

I had a crack at generating it with the openSUSE build service, but
there were some dependancies that were missing (compared to debian).

My advice, download STABLE-2.1.0, compile it and install it into a
test cluster somewhere.  Then let it run for week or so to convince
yourself and your boss that its safe :-)