[Pacemaker] OpenAIS vs. Corosync

[Andrew Beekhof]

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 12:39 AM, Ryan Steele <ryans at aweber.com> wrote:
> Well, I'm still not sure what the state of OpenAIS/CoroSync is, but seem to
> encounter only more problems the farther I dig in to it.  Here are the
> versions of the software packages I'm using:
>
> corosync            0.92-0ubuntu3
> libcorosync-dev     0.92-0ubuntu3
> libcorosync2        0.92-0ubuntu3
> libopenais-dev      0.91-0ubuntu3
> libopenais2         0.91-0ubuntu3
> libstonith0         2.99.1-1
> openais             0.91-0ubuntu3
> pacemaker           1.0.2-1
> pacemaker-dev       1.0.2-1
> pacemaker-mgmt      1.99.0-3
> pacemaker-mgmt-dev  1.99.0-3
> stonith             2.99.1-1
>
>
> That being said, with logging set to 'debug' I still had no idea why I'm
> seeing this in the logs:
>
>
> $ [SERV  ] Service failed to load 'pacemaker'.

This is quite unsurprising.
The CoroSync API has changed almost daily for the last few months.

If you really want to use CoroSync, I'd suggest compiling it and
pacemaker from source (so you know they'll be compatible).