Minutes for Cluster SIG conference call March 3, 2005

Attendees:

Daniel McNeil, OSDL
Mark Haverkamp, OSDL
John Cherry, OSDL
Steve Dake, Montavista
Bruce Walker, HP
Kevin Fox, Sun
Dave Lombard, Intel
Lars Marowsky-Brée, Suse
Patrick Caulfield, Redhat
Geoffroy Vallee, ORNL / INRIA / EDF
                 Kerringhed / SSI-OSCAR

I think I missed writing down someone from the call.  If I missed
you and you let me know, I'll add you to the list posted on the
web site.

Bruce Walker is working on getting multiple projects to support
his kernel hooks for cluster wide processes so that he can show
at least 3 project using the hooks when submitting the patches
to LKML.  Bruce is still looking for patch feedback.  He got some
feedback at Linux World about the number of functions, heterogeneous
support, and some comments about the /proc interface.

We also talked about the membership requirements and the membership
events that are needed.  Good discussion on various requirements
and on Bruce's membership discussion paper.  Generally agreed that
we need a membership events in the kernel and in user space and
we need the various kinds of events (for example, joining verses joined)
so various cluster services and applications know when it
is safe to  start up or allow cluster wide operation.  Discussion
included CMAN's service manager and HA's resource management.
It would be good if someone proposed an API as a starting point
for membership events.  Any takers?