On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 01:00:13AM -0700, Anand Avati wrote: > > I'm wondering if there's some way for glusterfs to detect the flaws of the > > underlying operating system. ?I believe there's no bug-free file systems in > > the universe, so I believe it is the job of the glusterfs developer to > > specify which underlying filesystem is tested and supported. ?It's not good > > to simply say that glusterfs works on all real-world approximations to an > > imaginary bug-free posix ?filesystem. > > I would be genuinely interested to know about another project which is > geared up to be resilient against kernel hangs so that we can borrow > some ideas on how to reliably detect kernel soft lockups or syscall > hangs. As far as I know, even mature projects like Apache have not > bothered fixing such hangs (or even detecting this kind of underlying > OS flaw). Check out heartbeat, and the rest (perhaps you knew of this): http://www.linux-ha.org/ cheers zenaan -- Homepage: www.SoulSound.net -- Free Australia: www.UPMART.org Please respect the confidentiality of this email as sensibly warranted.
