[Cluster-devel] Re: [PATCH] rgmanager: Add resource agent for DRBD

Fabio M. Di Nitto fdinitto at redhat.com
Thu Jul 2 09:18:34 UTC 2009


On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 11:00 +0200, Florian Haas wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> a bit of additional information about this patch: we've shipped this
> rgmanager resource agent in DRBD for a while. It's been deployed on a
> number of RHEL 5 clusters and people seem to be happy with
> it. However, since it's not integrated into system-config-cluster or
> Conga, the user experience is less than smooth. We've refrained from
> delivering system-config-cluster or Conga integration, since we would
> have to patch Red Hat maintained code in-place to be able to add that
> functionality, and that would obviously be a braindead thing to do.

Adding Jim and Ryan in CC for conga/s-c-c.

> 
> So as discussed with Lon, I'm submitting this for possible inclusion
> in rgmanager. Since cman/rgmanager appear to be hanging around for a
> while, as you are moving to Pacemaker (which has had a DRBD resource
> agent since the Heartbeat days), and in the hope of facilitating
> integration with the management tools.

thanks! I'll defer the review to lon but it's nice to see things being
integrated etc.

> 
> I realize you guys are currently in stabilization mode for 3.0.0, so
> feel free to defer the inclusion until later, but I didn't want to
> hold out with the submission any longer -- we already did for way too
> long. :)

If it can't make 3.0.0 it can probably going right after. I don't see a
major blocker with that.

Fabio




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