[ ssic-linux-Feature Requests-1836406 ] Why Linux old versions

Feature Requests item #1836406, was opened at 2007-11-22 11:40
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Category: System Architecture
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Status: Open
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Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Why Linux old versions

Initial Comment:
Dear All

Am planning to use openssi to cluster all UNIX servers in our corp, but i have a couple of questions please somebody answers it.

First why is openssi on have packages to very old versions of linux like redhat 9 and fedora core3
and 
i dont understand or find a doc about how to make oracle rac work on it.
WHat i understand is the nodes are booted from PXE and a kernel in uploaded in the ramdisk but how can it support rac as i think rac must have multiple instances with shared storage or clustered FS.

I really appreciate a response,
Best regards 

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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2008-08-07 22:32

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Just a "me too". I'm just now getting into the world of clustering at a
kind of "hobbyist" level. I'm using current hardware, so I need to use a
reasonably current kernel. OpenSSI WOULD be my first choice, but I'm now
looking at Kerrighed (with DRBL etc) instead simply because a 2.6.11/12
kernel is WAY too old for the hardware I'm using.

I don't know what happened to "working on [ 1248048 ] Provide OpenSSI for
RHEL4-type distributions", but that comment is now over 8 months old and as
far as I know everything "official" is still Fedora Core 3. Just my opinion
here, but it seems to me that if OpenSSI has to be tied to a specific
distro, Ubuntu or Debian would be a better choice than Fedora/Red Hat.

Re. John Hughes work: it's good to see that at least someone is trying to
do something, but it'd be nice if the "main guys" could see a need to stay
a bit more up-to-date. As Mr. Hughes himself said, his forward port doesn't
include Roger's latest work, so we can either have an out of date kernel or
out of date OpenSSI on a newer kernel.

Might as well paste this here too (from
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.cluster.ssic.devel/5769 cos the
SourceForge mailing list links are borked)...

"Since my company webserver is down I've taken advantage of Ivan Krstic's

kind offer to host the packages on deb.openssi.org.

You can now find the instructions at:

    http://deb.openssi.org/alpha/openssi-etch

and

    http://deb/openssi.org/alpha/openssi-lenny

I've not bothered with the Ubuntu Hardy Heron version as that is pretty 
flaky, but if anyone needs/wants it give me a shout."

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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2007-11-22 13:16

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Developers are working on [ 1248048 ] Provide OpenSSI for RHEL4-type
distributions

The cluster filesystem (CFS) comes with OpenSSI and operates seamlessly. 
You want to specify "chard" mount option to activate high-availability.

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