23 Jul 2000 alanr   » (Master)

I guess I ought to write at least one journal entry.

Lately, I've been spending most of my time doing at least six different things:

Promoting Linux-HA. A week ago last Thursday (whenever that was), I spoke to the Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts. Going to Atlanta in July wasn't my idea of good timing (it's hot and humid then), but they audience was very interested, and quite well-informed. The talk was very well received, and I even got an idea for a useful feature in heartbeat, which I implemented a few days later.

Working on reset code for LinuxFailSafe. It uses the STONITH API below.

Designing, writing, implementing and changing a STONITH API. STONITH == Shoot The Other Node In The Head. Also called STOMITH, substituting Machine for Node. I like STONITH, because of the similarity to Stoning a person representing the ultimate rejection from the community. In any case, I've been designing the abstract API, and writing code to implement it for the BayTech RPC-5.

Designing and implementing an API for heartbeat. Heartbeat is pretty nice in several ways, but it is limited in what it can do. It does heartbeats better than any other open source product I know of, but doesn't integrate with other applications to speak of. The API will allow it to be easily used with lots of other applications, whether with FailSafe, or Piranha, or CXFS, or Kimberlite, or with Stephen's new cluster manager, or some newly designed cluster manager or whatever. It is nearly complete, but needs some minor redesign to eliminate certain security issues from it before people start using it. You can get the code for this and the Stonith API from the Linux-HA CVS repository.

Generally working on heartbeat. Fixing it up, etc.

Strategizing on how SuSE should promote and package Linux-HA. Generally worrying about what should be done, and puzzling over how to get it done. This activity overlaps with lmb.

General Notes
I just got a new user for heartbeat that I am absolutely sure will need some tech support this winter. Heartbeat is now running in Tahiti :-)

I just found out that a talk I gave back in April won an award for the best talk of the day at the Lucent Technologies Software Symposium. That was certainly nice.

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