[Pacemaker] OCFS2 integration on distros that don't ship cman

[Florian Haas]

On 2011-04-15 08:23, Andrew Beekhof wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 7:51 AM, Florian Haas <florian.haas at linbit.com> wrote:
>> Andrew,
>>
>> the documentation states that unless your distro ships
>> dlm_controld.pcmk, you should be installing cman and running Pacemaker
>> on that. I presume this is because (at least on Fedora and RHEL), cman
>> ships with the standard dlm_controld that now supports Pacemaker.
> 
> Other way around, Pacemaker 1.1.x supports cman which means it can use
> the standard dlm_controld.

Gotcha.

>> Now, for packagers on distros that don't ship cman, is it a viable
>> option to just package dlm_controld from
>> git://git.fedorahosted.org/dlm.git, and ship that to support
>> Pacemaker-managed OCFS2?
> 
> Yes. This is what SLES does and will presumably continue to do.
> Err, assuming the patches are still in there.

Right. I asked because SLES currently builds from Cluster 3.0.x sources
iirc, which do include the .pcmk variants -- question was whether it was
OK to build from current versions that just have the "standard"
controld. Based on your answer I assume it is.

Andres, does that answer your question from the IRC discussion we had
yesterday?

> There is no intention from my side to prevent the .pcmk variants from
> working in the future.

OK.

> The only other thing to note is that eventually everything (pacemaker,
> *FS, dlm_controld) will hook into the corosync quorum plugin instead
> of cman or the pacemaker plugin.
> 
> Timeline for that should be in the next year or so (after much
> additional testing) IIUC.

OK. Thanks!

Cheers,
Florian

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