Re: available resource declaration language(s)

[Alan Robertson <alanr@unix.sh>]

Rik van Riel wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, David Santo Orcero wrote:
> 
> > > I would suggest that we not give up quickly on the idea of having common
> > > components and APIs.  I believe that some implementations of components will
> >
> >  It is not giving up the idea; I thing that there is some subsystems
> > that may be common, and some not. I thing that the API would be
> > different, but we can rehuse losts of code between the different
> > projects.
> 
> That would only be true if you have a monolithic piece of
> clustering software.
> 
> When you actually "plug in" every part on a component basis,
> the APIs used between components can be equal for both types
> of clusters...
> 
> (eg.  "grab lock" or "send message")

Rik!  You stole my thunder!	 ;-)

What we've (wombat and I) have had in mind is a clustering framework into
which various components can be plugged.  This is an extension of the
architecture which heartbeat currently uses internally.

[I had talked to Rik about it on IRC].

	-- Alan Robertson
	   alanr@unix.sh

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