[SSI-users] Re: [SSI-devel] addnode file modification

[Aneesh K. K.V <ane...@di...>]

Hi,

Why debian !!! ? Firstly my cluster runs on debian  and I run it on
alpha. I don't find any possibility of finding any more redhat releases
for alpha. 

Talking about stability I burned my last two night testing Clusterwide
SysV IPC. ( Well Laura did all the fixing  :) ). It has become rock
solid now alteast for me . Thanks Laura. That says Stability is the
prime goal and most of the time i try to do that first . But if i can't
run the cluster on Debian there is not way i can test it also. Because i
don't have redhat Alpha here. :) ( SysV IPC is also the reason you
didn't find a patch attached to my previous mail. I didn't have time to
fix it. I was planning to do that this Saturday. I need to do my office
work too  :) )

Putting files in /cluster makes all the SSI/cluster specific file
located under /cluster. That way i am not going to clutter the standard
distribution file with cluster specific configuration file. (
excpetions  /etc/cvip.conf , but that is not modification it is  a new
utility by itself. ).Imagine running a 100 node cluster you will end up
having /etc/whatever-1 to /etc/whatever-100. It is bit ugly. Where as
say /cluster/nodenum1/etc/whatever is bit neat isn't it ?


Under /cluster we have /var/log and /var/run /tmp and many other CDSLs.
So we can't move anything under /etc/


We already have support for Debian and again supporting  more than one
distro make moving to other distro much easier ( suse, united linux
....). Otherwise we may need to undo lot of things/decision that we make
now. ( All these distros are so crazy there have different file location
for the same files. ) But everybody is coming the debian way . ( redhat
now have /etc/init.d/ whereas it had /etc/rc.d/init.d before . Well this
happened before LSB. )


I am moving the discussion to ssi-users since people over there will
enjoy the discussion more :) 

-aneesh 
On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 18:28, Dave Paris wrote:
> This seems like a somewhat broken solution (dumping new directories at 
> the filesystem root is very "hackish" to me) to get around what many 
> people consider to be a rogue Linux distribution.  Debian tends to be 
> seen in bedrooms and in the hands of individuals while RedHat is usually 
> seen in the backroom and data centers.  I'm not saying that Debian is a 
> bad distribution, but more saying that Debian isn't a "commercial" 
> distribution and the organization driving it isn't geared to provide 
> commercial support, commercial packaging, etc.  It's fine to have a 
> favorite distribution - everybody does - but when the goal (to an 
> outsider) seems to be getting a stable, current release of a product 
> (SSIC) with mostly commercial/instituional use out the door, focusing on 
> making the release compatible with multiple distributions seems to run 
> contrary to the goal.
> 
> Perhaps putting the proposed /cluster directory under /etc would be a 
> better compromise, if it really needs to be moved.  I'm wondering why 
> the worry about breaking Debian when there's no (apparent) plans to 
> support SuSE, Slackware, or other distributions?
> 
> That being said, kudos for the IPVS and HA additions!  Outstanding!
> 
> -dsp
> 
> Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 23:09, David Zafman wrote:
> >
> >>ssi/addnode
> >>	Add /var/lib/nfs statd directory for node specific rpc.statd
> >>	Create empty directory /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts-NODE#
> >>	Ask for node specific host name and put in /etc/sysconfig/network
> >>
> >
> >Putting redhat specific file locations in addnode will break debian.I
> >guess these files need to be installed by calling another script from
> >addnode which will be node specific. ie, from addnode we can call
> >/cluster/node_specific_install. We will put
> >/cluster/node_specific_install during the installation of cluster-tools.
> >
> >What do you think ?
> >
> >-aneesh 
> >
> >
> >
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