4 Aug 2000 alanr   » (Master)

I've been working on the heartbeat API. It actually works pretty well. Marcelo found a couple of bugs in it, and suggested restructuring a small piece of it. So, I fixed one of the bugs, will fix another, and let him do the restructuring (he wanted to). Marcelo's a good guy. I work closely with their people, and really anyone who's interested. I've issued specific invitations to everyone who's active in this area, including those guys in NC. Right now, we have folks from many companies using and contributing to heartbeat. It's a blast!

Linux Fail Safe is nearing it's open source release. We're getting pretty excited about it. It's by far the most powerful of the High-Availability products, open or closed source.

I hope to position heartbeat to be able to do membership and low-level communication for lots of different projects. We'll write a new simple cluster manager, and use the heartbeat API. There is a place for an HA batch queueing system. Of course, it could use heartbeat ;-)

I hope to change FailSafe to use it. Perhaps even the folks at Mission-Critical Linux could use it. SGI is eyeing it for things I don't think I'm free to talk about.

It's basic, but it works pretty darn well, and gets better all the time ;-)

I got some nice feedback from Eric Ayers about my talk at the ALE (Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts) meeting last month. If you want me to speak to your LUG or conference about Linux-HA, let me know. I like giving talks.

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