[LinuxFailSafe] Failsafe development

[Lars Marowsky-Bree]

On 2002-07-12T10:53:17,
   Dan Freed <dfreed@epicsystems.com> said:

> Is Failsafe still be developed?  I just went up to the FTP site and the most
> recent version there is dated Mar. 2001.

The answer is two-fold:

SGI has frozen FailSafe development on x86/Linux as far as I understand;
however, they continue to host the CVS and the OSS ftp site. As SGI has made
available the Red Hat RPMs and have stopped to do so, this is what is on the
ftp site.

However, SuSE has deployed FailSafe in quite a few projects and has continued
customer-driven development of new FailSafe plugins as well as generic
bugfixes, which have been comitted to the CVS tree. We provide binary RPMs of
FailSafe, targetted mainly at our Enterprise Server product for IA32,
available freely at ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/failsafe/.

Quite frankly, SuSE has no intention of making available RPMs for other
distributions; besides the obvious, I couldn't adequately test them. The
source is out there in the CVS, so nothing should stop anyone from doing so;
in fact, I would appreciate that.


Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>

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