Fw: [LinuxFailSafe] Is Linux FailSafe Actively Maintained?

[Dominique Chabord]

Hello,

Sorry I forgot copiing the list with my answer to Alliot
Here it is
Dominique
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dominique Chabord" <dominique.chabord@bluedjinn.com>
To: "Elliott Perkins" <linuxfs@infinitefunctions.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 1:58 AM
Subject: Re: [LinuxFailSafe] Is Linux FailSafe Actively Maintained?


> Hello,
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Elliott Perkins"
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I posted some questions about hardware last week, and in one of the
> replies,
> > Martin Bene said:
> >
> > >>Also, consider an alternative HA solution - failsafe is no longer
> > >>actively
> > >>maintained.
>
> A statement was made earlier in this list. My understanding is that
failsafe
> is not dead but at least suspended.
> >
> > Is it true that Linux FailSafe is no longer actively maintained?  If so,
> > what is another good open source solution that provides failover for
Linux
> > clusters and will work with Oracle databases.
>
> I would start here: http://www.lcic.org/ for a generic overview
> Have you checked heartbeat project (http://linux-ha.org) ? I don't know
what
> they have done with Oracle. It is OpenSource.
> I guess you evaluated Oracle parallel server (not Opensource) and OpenSSI,
> opensourced from HP (not sure this last one can make it)
>
> I personnaly manage WDX (http://www.shaman-x.org). It is GNU-GPL. WDX has
> automated
> failovers of two kinds for Oracle:
> - Failover of Oracle server on shared storage (file system implementation)
> - Automated fast backup (volume cloning) and failover to a copy from with
> Oracle Standby Database.
> These projects were based on Digital UNIX, and I don't know if Oracle
> product for Linux is the same.
>
> >
> > Thanks very much in advance for your answers.
> >
> Hope this helps
> Dominique
>
> > Regards,
> > Elliott Perkins
> >
> >
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