Re: [SSI-users] debian lenny stability, reliability, xen, drbd?

[jhonyl <jh...@ne...>]

>> lspci for my NIC is :
>> 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Attansic Technology Corp. L1 Gigabit
>> Ethernet Adapter (rev b0)

>What driver does it need?  What kernel version does it come in?

In kernel 2.6.26 the driver exist. The module name is atl1e.


-----Original Message-----
From: John Hughes <jo...@Ca...>
To: jhonyl <jh...@ne...>
Cc: ssi...@li...
Sent: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:28 pm
Subject: Re: [SSI-users] debian lenny stability, reliability, xen, drbd?

jhonyl wrote:
> 1. Kernel is really alpha,
Yup.
> 2. no XEN version of the kernel, so I can't run it as domU/guest
I'll see if I can make a Xen domU version of the kernel next week, I
happen to be playing with Xen for some other projects I'm working on.
> 3. User space is a bit Etch ? Does that mean things like older
> gnome/evolution/other_apps versions?
Nowhere near that bad, it's just some of the packages in openssi-lenny
(none of which are particularly user-facing) and all the packages in
openssi-lenny-extras:

    Package: gnome-power-manager
    Package: grub
    Package: hal
    Package: libdevmapper1.02
    Package: libsane
    Package: libsane-extras
    Package: udev



>  If I want to shutdown one node for hardware maintenance, is it
> possible to migrate all the processes of that node to another node
> before the intentional poweroff? (instead of migrating the whole VM
> via xen)
That's the idea.  This is a place where we seem to have some bugs at 
the
moment, some multi-threaded processes seem to be showing up as
unmigrateable.
>
> Since it is alpha... I may play with it but not install it on mission
> critical servers. Is there some version of OpenSSI + OS that is
> mission critical quality?
Not yet.
> lspci for my NIC is :
> 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Attansic Technology Corp. L1 Gigabit
> Ethernet Adapter (rev b0)

What driver does it need?  What kernel version does it come in?

> FYI  - I thought of xen because of my NICs drivers, and also because 
I
> have 8GB RAM on my two nodes, and the OpenSSI kernel is only 32bit, 
so
> I thought that instead of running one 64bit OS, I can run two OpenSSI
> nodes on the same XEN host, and thus utilize all of my RAM.
Could be done.