Re: [SSI-users] OpenSSI and RedHat 8.0

[Robinson M. C. <rma...@al...>]

On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Brian J. Watson wrote:
> > 
> > Started device management daemon v1.3.25 for /dev (fstab says that devfs 
> > will be mounted on /devfs ?)
> 
> Did you install a prior version of OpenSSI? devfs used to be mounted on 
> /devfs, but not anymore.
>

0.9.6-2 following (almost) char by char the docs found on openssi.org
 
> > My questions are, are there any docs that document what is needed to setup 
> > an openssi cluster
> 
> Hardware-wise you need two more computers connected with an Ethernet 
> network. How to install the software should be documented well enough by 
> the INSTALL instructions that come with the release. What else do you 
> want to know?
>

My point is that the INSTALL doc is not in sync with the releases.
 
> > why did you focalize in a dead rh 
> > version? why not keep working with the latest stable one? (rh7.3) 
> 
> Not sure what you mean by a dead RH version. Are you referring to our 
> base being RH 2.4.18-18? 

No, I'm referring to the distro itself, RH8 was not mature enough for 
production environments, it had a lot of issues, various of those issues 
arise when you install it on a language other than english (sometimes I 
have to install it in Spanish due to customer/employer/student request)

I can figure out the amount of work being put in maintain a single 
"compatible" distro, that's why I have no means to ask for 2 openssi 
versions, 1 for production environments (maybe based in RH7.{2,3}) and 1 
experimental branch for the latest RH version. That would help a lot, at 
least for people like me who's thinking about rolling up openssi in 
production (I'm planning to run Oracle 9i RAC on it)

> If so, the reason is that no one's taken the 
> time to roll it up to a more recent version. I'm thinking about merging 
> it to RH 2.4.20-9 (the latest RH 9 kernel).
> 

RH 9 comes with the new glibc with NPTL, beware 8)

> Thanks for your thorough bug report. Look for the 0.9.6-3 release to fix 
> a most of the problems you mentioned.
> 

I'll look forward to test it up

> Thanks,

No, thanks you and the openssi team for a great package

Best regards,
-- 
Robinson Maureira Castillo
Gerencia de Sistemas y Tecnologia
INACAP
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