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

[Andrew Beekhof]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Florian Haas <florian.haas at linbit.com> wrote:
> 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.

I just checked, they're not.
So if you want the non-cman version, you need to restore the pacemaker pieces.

>
> 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.

It is, but you'd need cman in that case.
Personally I find it very disappointing that the pacemaker variant was
removed from the source just because Fedora no longer planned to
build/package it.

>
> 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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