Linux-HA reaches the 2.0 milestone

Linux-HA reaches the 2.0 milestone

Posted Aug 4, 2005 16:32 UTC (Thu) by Alan_Hicks (subscriber, #20469)
Parent article: Linux-HA reaches the 2.0 milestone

Indeed, congratulations are in order.

I first looked at Heartbeat back in late 2003 for a two-node failover cluster that my foolish bosses had sold to a customer with no idea how to create one. The company collapsed immediately after that and it all fell on my shoulders to get one going. I wasn't as experienced with GNU/Linux back then as I am now. I spent about two weeks looking for viable solutions before finally giving Heartbeat a try. I was to say the least, impressed.

I'm glad to see that two-node clusters are fully supported now. At the time I had to create a fake node from the client's gateway to get things working properly. Additionally I had to make use of a hardly known kernel patch called drbd. I'd like to look at Heartbeat again in the future, and from the sound of things, this milestone has fixed many of the problems I encountered at the time.

Props to the Linux-HA team. If any of you read this, I greatly appreciate the work you've done and the assistance you gave this rank-and-file noob two years ago.

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