[LinuxFailSafe] Failsafe development

[Dan Freed]

Thanks for the info Lars.

By the way, your email signature rocks.  I just may have to steal =
it...err borrow it.

Daniell Freed
Server Systems Team
Epic Systems Corp.
dfreed@epicsystems.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: Lars Marowsky-Bree [mailto:lmb@suse.de]=20
Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2002 12:30 PM
To: Dan Freed; linuxfailsafe@lists.community.tummy.com
Subject: Re: [LinuxFailSafe] Failsafe development

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-Br=E9e <lmb@suse.de>

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