Re: A proposal for a General Clustering Framework

["Jeff Darcy" <linuxguy@tambreet.com>]

> ditto, mr. "work I did that IBM claimed credit for".

Unlike your claim, mine can be verified.  Ask Peter Badovinatz; he inherited
some of the code I wrote.  Ask Steve Todd, or Alan Robertson; they're both
familiar with my work too.  I was the chief architect and implementor of the
cluster manager for HACMP 3.1 (pre-Phoenix) and one of three for the
corresponding lock manager (yes, the one open-sourced by IBM).  At the time,
HACMP was the only open-systems clustering software to support eight nodes,
and even now I have yet to hear about a lock manager that provides better
four-node OPS scalability using an off-the-shelf interconnect.  Much of my
work from that period has survived to this day, which is pretty good for the
industry in general and particularly in light of the continual political
wars within IBM.  The HACMP concepts and terminology that I helped develop
have been adopted by many other HA projects, including one Linux HA project
that was a transparent ripoff of the 3.1 design by an IBM field engineer.

In short, I'd say my credentials in this area are extremely solid and quite
verifiable...unlike yours, so you can keep your snide ad-hominem BS to
yourself.  Next time find out who the hell you're talking to before you
assume you know more than they do.


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