[OCF] Implementations of OCF resource agent API

[Lon Hohberger]

On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 15:51 -0600, Alan Robertson wrote:

> > 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.

You're correct; the resource group manager is a RHEL-next timeframe
project.

> > 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.

We've been talking :)

Though, some of the extensions I use are only for providing an easy
upgrade path for existing customers.

-- Lon