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Re: Installed Linux Failsafe today

To: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Installed Linux Failsafe today
From: Mayank Vasa <vasa@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 11:35:38 -0700
Cc: Eric.Ayers@xxxxxxxxxxx, failsafe@xxxxxxxxxxx
Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc.
References: <14720.44583.485879.72937@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <20000728133454.J1346@marowsky-bree.de>
Sender: owner-failsafe@xxxxxxxxxxx
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.

[snip]

-- 
Mayank Vasa
Linux FailSafe Team.

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