[Pacemaker] OCFS2 in Pacemaker, post Corosync 2.0

[Andrew Beekhof]

On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 8:08 AM, Florian Haas <florian at hastexo.com> wrote:
> Andrew,
>
> just a quick question out of curiosity: the ocf:pacemaker:o2cb resource
> and ocfs2_controld.pcmk require the OpenAIS CKPT service which is
> currently deprecated (as all of OpenAIS) and going away completely
> (IIUC) with Corosync 2.0. Does that mean that OCFS2 will be unsupported
> from Corosync 2.0 forward, as far as Pacemaker is concerned?

Unless they rewrite their controld for corosync 2.0 (in a similar
manner to what GFS2 did), then you are correct.
Pacemaker itself doesn't actually care, those controld's are ways for
the FS to get membership data out of the cluster, not to put anything
pack in.

> Or has that
> CKPT dependency been removed, or will there be another supported way to
> run it?
>
> All insight much appreciated. Thanks!
>
> Cheers,
> Florian
>
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