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                                Linux FailSafe 1.0
                        http://oss.sgi.com/projects/failsafe/
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What is Linux FailSafe?
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Linux FailSafe is an HA infrastructure solution providing highly
available services to clients in a cluster.  Highlights of the
Linux FailSafe architecture/implementation include the following:

- Modular
- User-level software
- Applications do not need to be HA-aware
- Dynamic cluster configuration
- Command-line interface
- Java-based cluster management graphical interface for
  initial configuration and production-mode monitoring
- Data integrity protection
- Local failover
- Fine grain failover of applications
- Ordered, selective and cascading failover of applications
- Dynamically managed application monitoring
- Dynamically managed failsafe resources
- Dynamically managed failsafe upgrades
- Enforcing I/O clean property
- Works with shared as well as non-shared storage

More on this can be accessed at http://oss.sgi.com/projects/failsafe/doc0.html

Contents of this package:
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cluster_admin-1.0.0:	src code for the cluster administration layer.
cluster_services-1.0.0:	src code for the cluster services layer.
failsafe-1.0.0:		src code for the failsafe layer.
build:			sandbox for creating the RPMS, and a useful installation tool
include:		Makefile macros

Documentation:
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You have a choice of three different formats for reading the FailSafe documentation 
in addition to the source itself:

failsafedocs-1.0-1.noarch.rpm: 		HTML Format
failsafedocs-print-1.0-1.noarch.rpm: 	PDF and Postscript
failsafedocs-sgml-1.0-1.noarch.rpm: 	SGML
failsafedocs-1.0-1.src.rpm: 		Source RPM.

These can be downloaded separately at http://oss.sgi.com/projects/failsafe/downlaod/docs/

FAQ
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An up-to-date version of the FAQ will be maintained at
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/failsafe/faq.html. This will contain a section on
known bugs and workarounds as people report them.


Notes
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1. For installation instructions read the "INSTALL" file in the same directory.

2. The STONITH API has been conditionally (#define) checked in. Please refer to
   the cluster_services-1.0.0/lib/libcrs/src/Readme for more details on 
   compiling STONITH.