First contact

[Alan Robertson]

DarkBrain@jumpy.it wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
>    i'm moving my first step into linux cluster. I've just read Linux-HA
> HOWTO, but unfortunally it's incomplete, btw i've a lot of questions:
> 1) Witch Filesystem? ext2 isn't journaled so it's not the best, but ext3
> or raiserFS are usable for an HA system? Are them stable? If yes witch i
> have to choose? If ext2 is the only one witch i can use, how can i manage
> file system check in a takeover?

I think at this point that most people on this list use ReiserFS for this
purpose - just because it's been around longer.  Ext3 is obviously designed
for this purpose, but I haven't tried it myself yet.

> 2) Linux-HA HOWTO speak about some event, are them managed by cluster software?
?
> 
> 3) Witch cluster manager? UltraMonkey or Piranha? Are them complete, or
> better, if i install one of these managers, i havn't  to install others
> program such fake or mon?

I don't have any experience with Piranha.  I also don't know your
application.  Some people who install heartbeat add Mon to the mix, and some
don't.  Hopefully in the near future, most of what people use Mon for will
be done more directly by heartbeat.

I would suggest reading the linux-ha archives, and the linux-ha-dev
archives, since this topic comes up fairly often.

	-- Alan Robertson
	   alanr@unix.sh