On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 15:18, Jeff wrote: > Wednesday, October 6, 2004, 2:53:26 PM, Villalovos, John L wrote: > > > linux-cluster-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >> On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 21:08, Villalovos, John L wrote: > >>> Are there any plans to try to get the cluster stack into RHEL 4? > >>> > >>> Looking at the current RHEL 4 Beta I did not see it in there. > >>> > >>> I was hoping that it was going to be there. > >> > >> John - The GFS and HA components of the cluster stack are > >> layered on RHEL 3 today, and the new versions being developed > >> will be similarly layered on RHEL 4. So these are additive > >> subscriptions, similar to app server, devel environment, etc. > > > Okay. Thanks for the info. I thought since it had become open source > > that Red Hat was just going to add it into their next Enterprise Linux > > product. I guess I'm mistaken. > > > Thanks, > > John > > What's layered on RHEL 3 today is the GULM based system, > correct? I too was under the impression that the 'new' > cluster stack was going to be included in the base RHEL > distribution. After all, there is a push to get it included > in the base kernel, no? RHEL today actually comes in 4 flavors: desktop, workstation, small server, and large server. Each has a different service level agreement, costs different appropriately, etc. Things like clustering were layered so you could use on top of whatever RHEL version that meets your needs.
