[Ocfs2-users] Catatonic nodes under SLES10

[Alexei_Roudnev]

Absolutely. 100% agree! I think that the only sugnificant (and easy, safe)
improvement for o2cb which should be done is _multiple IP for heartbeat_ and
_configurable timeout_.



> ... Personally, I think it's a huge ease-of-use win for someone
> who just wants to set up a tandem web server (for example) with ocfs2
> mounted between the servers. o2cb is extremely easy to set up, so going
> from 0 to 100% is literally a 3 minute operation.
>
> So, I think we should keep o2cb around for the truly simple deployments.
> We don't really need to expand it much, it's already suited for that.
> Long term development, AFAIK, will focus more on getting the userspace
> cluster interface more solid. Like any kernel<->userspace interaction
> involving file systems, it could find itself prone to memory deadlocks
> if the system is very low on memory and swaps out the cluster manager.
> That's something that definitely needs to be worked on, and I'm working
> with Andrew to ensure that happens in the future.