[LinuxFailSafe] Failsafe project web page

[Ingvar Hagelund]

Is the LinuxFailsafe project dead or alive?

The project web page http://oss.sgi.com/projects/failsafe/ notes that
the latest Linux distributions Failsafe runs on is RedHat 7.1, and
SuSE 7.2. This is old software. I also see that the mailing list is
close to dead, with less than 20 messages per month last 5 months.

Do SGI or SuSE or anyone plan to do more work on LinuxFailsafe? Will
LinuxFailsafe work on more modern Linux distributions like RedHat
8/9/Enterprise, or SuSE 8.2/SLES?

Regards,
Ingvar

[Marcin Przyczyna]

Post by Ingvar Hagelund
Is the LinuxFailsafe project dead or alive?

Approximately one year ago Lars Marovsky-Bree, boss of cluster sollutions by SuSE
wrote a letter to the community.
SuSE works no longer with SGI. Cooperation has been terminated,
and Lars proposed the people a "chair switch" to Open Clustering Framework.

Post by Ingvar Hagelund
The project web page http://oss.sgi.com/projects/failsafe/ notes that
the latest Linux distributions Failsafe runs on is RedHat 7.1, and
SuSE 7.2. This is old software. I also see that the mailing list is
close to dead, with less than 20 messages per month last 5 months.

Sad, but true.

Post by Ingvar Hagelund
Do SGI or SuSE or anyone plan to do more work on LinuxFailsafe? Will
LinuxFailsafe work on more modern Linux distributions like RedHat
8/9/Enterprise, or SuSE 8.2/SLES?

AFAIK SGI is out. They sell Failsafe II. SuSE says nothing,
even if, than only "off the record", but it does not look
like a real strategy.

SuSE, say something :-)

Cheers,
mpr.