Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
>
> On 2000-07-27T17:48:23,
> "Eric Z. Ayers" <eric@xxxxxxxxxxx> said:
>
> > I am developing a hardware platform that will include:
> >
> > 2 X86 boxes
> > Internal IDE disk in each box
> > Shared SCSI (AHA2940 cards) with (software) RAID1
> > Hopefully some sort of journaling FS when it becomes available
> > Right now I have a single 3c59x card in each machine, but I will
> > have dual ethernet in the final config (probabaly Intel nics)
>
> You may wish to have separate NICs though - my personal estimate is that if
> one port fails on a dual port card, the other one is likely to fail too.
>
> > serial cable interconnect for heartbeat
>
> Failsafe cannot currently use this, and I am unaware of the plan to make use
> of serial interconnect.
>
> > Yesterday, I finally got some test hardware in place and I've
> > installed Red Hat 6.2 in the IDE drive on each node.
>
> Good, thanks for testing this! So far, Failsafe has been mainly tested on SuSE
> Linux, but of course we want to support all platforms.
>
Testing is being done on both the OSes on our side. We have 2 Redhat
clusters inhouse on which we are testing in addition to 2 SuSE clusters.
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Mayank Vasa
Linux FailSafe Team.
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