[Ocfs2-devel] [RFC] Fencing harness for OCFS2

[Lars Marowsky-Bree]

On 2006-05-25T20:31:33, Daniel Phillips <phillips at google.com> wrote:

> Goals:
>     - Lightweight, kernel based fencing harness
>     - Support pluggable fencing methods
>     - Pluggable methods take policy out of kernel
>     - No reinvented wheels, use kernel modules
>     - Also accomodate user space fencing methods
>     - Divide work appropriately between kernel and user space
>     - Obey memory deadlock prevention rules
>     - Obey safe module unload rules
>     - Handle multiple clusters per node

Sorry we're chiming in so late, but with Jeff's user-space membership
patches, we have user-space driven fencing working with heartbeat 2.


Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Brée

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