[OCF] Implementations of OCF resource agent API

[Alan Robertson]

Lon Hohberger wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 09:20 -0600, Alan Robertson wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>Both the Linux-HA project and Red Hat's cluster manager are in the process 
>>of implementing (in a production way) the OCF resource agent API.
> 
> 
> Well, really the resource group manager as part (currently) of the
> linux-cluster project on sources.redhat.com, which we hope will replace
> Cluster Manager.

For some reason, I had the (apparently mistaken) idea that this was going 
out as part of RHEL 4.

> There are some trivial extensions rgmanager uses as part of the
> metadata; but because it is XML, other RMs can simply ignore them.  Some
> of the extensions are probably useful for the OCF RA API, but we'll see
> how it works out.
> 
> The most obvious (useful, I think) extension is shortdesc and longdesc
> fields as a child of the resource-agent tag instead of just the
> parameters ;)

I'm sure LMB would be happy to discuss this stuff with you.  I doubt that 
very many people care about the subtleties of the XML representation.

This is not to say that they're unimportant, in fact agreeing on them is 
quite important.

Can you explain more why you think this change should be made?


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