Re: OpenSSI versions

Scott Walters wrote:
> Was there a fork at some point with development happening
> concurrently on the 1.9.x branch and the 2.0.x branch?  Or is
> the Debian work just lagging in cluster software version?
>   
The "cluster software" (libcluster and so on) hasn't needed any major 
changes for quite some time.  Most of the interesting work has been in 
ther kernel.
> http://wiki.openssi.org/go/Roadmap partially answers that question
> (2.0.0preX reserved for kernel 2.6.18 or higher).
>   
In fact 2.0 is going to be 2.6.11 based.  We'll move to more recent 
kernels after 2.0.
> I'm pretty sure I installed 1.9.6 for Debian Lenny (x86), but
> `cluster -r` reports:  "This is cluster software release 1.9.3".
> That's kind of tangential, but I can't help wondering if that can
> easily be accounted for.
>   
It's really just the version of the "cluster" command.
> `cluster -m` reports 15, and I'm approaching that number of machines
> here.  Also, one of the photos at http://wiki.openssi.org/go/Showcase
> kind of suggests that clusters with more nodes exist.  Can this limit
> be easily increased in config?  I thought I read somewhere that
> the 1.2 stable branch had a similarly low limit but newer 1.9 versions
> allowed for hundreds of machines in the cluster.
>
> Do I (currently) need to run the Fedora Core version to throw nodes at this?
>   
The cluster tools are (distribution differences aside) identical between 
the Debian and FC versions.
> I'm continuously in awe of OpenSSI.  Thank you for your work and
> for your attention.
>   
Aw, shucks.


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