What's Happening with Open Source HA Software?

Posted by Cliff on Friday June 7, 2002 @12:18PM from the combating-downtime-with-clustering dept.

Monkius asks: "A year ago, there seemed to be two promising Linux HA frameworks--along with lots and lots of experimental things: SGI's FailSafe, and Kimberlite from Mission Critical Linux. The FailSafe software website now seems very out of date, although the mailing list remains active, and there seems to be forward momentum. On the other hand, Redhat seems to have forked the development of Kimberlite, calling the fork Redhat Cluster Manager. They don't seem to be making development source available, at least to the public. Are these two projects still relevant? What's the current status of Open Source HA?"

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Re:HA! by gnugnugnu · 2002-06-09 03:39 · Score: 0, Troll

thank you for the explanation

it was not too difficult to work out that HA stood for High Availability in the context of clusters with a little help from Google but really should the reader have to figure it out? it is really dissapointing that Cliff did not expand the acronym or add any relevant links.
If it is news, "News for Nerds" then why dont they at least try and do some journalism.

Karma be damned, not using AC this time.