Re: Red Hat Inc's position towards piranha, ipvs, etc not with Red Hat Advanced Server?

On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 09:48, nathan hruby wrote:
> 
> On Friday, July 12, 2002, at 07:37 AM, Jeff Bearer wrote:
> 
> > I'm hoping somebody with some insight can explain this to the list.
> > What is Red Hat's position of keep up these piranha packages when they
> > are trying to push Red Hat Advanced Server?
> >
> > I'm curious because the piranha-0.6.1-3 and the ipvsadm-1.18-8 packages
> > were built at Red Hat, will there be others?  If not I'm sure the
> > community will keep it alive, but I'm curious what's in store for the
> > future of piranha.
> 
> Er.. ain't RHAS just 7.2 with a finer tuned kernel, tuned postgres, 
> piranha and support? If so than I would think piranha is alive and well.

Not really. In Advanced Server, piranha has been relegated to LVS only
usage. The failover technology has been replaced by the Red Hat Cluster
Manager software.

I hesitate to make an "official position" statement on piranha. I'd
rather let Mike or Tim do that.

~spot
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