[Pacemaker] OpenAIS vs. Corosync

[Andrew Beekhof]

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Steven Dake <sdake at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 11:42 -0500, Karl Katzke wrote:
>> > Karl,
>> >
>> > we are closing in on the final days of openais and corosync versions
>> > 1.0.
>> >
>> > Regards
>> > -steve
>>
>> So? When will we see some stable, well-documented configurations that aren't supported and tested by only one specific vendor?
>>
>> -K
>>
>>
>
> Karl,
>
> I assume vendors will start to pick up corosync 1.0 and openais 1.0
> after its released and begin to support it then.  The timeline for
> openais-0.80.3 to be fully supported and widely distributed took several
> years.
>
> I wouldn't expect this big delay for Corosync since the code base is
> similar.  I expect the transition to Corosync will be rapid once
> pacemaker is ported to it and its proven itself to be stable.  If you
> want to help, I recommend asking your OS vendor to support Corosync in
> their products.

Assuming testing goes well, Novell will likely ship it in SP1 of HAE
for SLES11 (man, what a mouthful that is).