[Pacemaker] Pre-Announce: End of 0.6 support is near

[Andrew Beekhof]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Emmanuel Lesouef <e.lesouef at crbn.fr> wrote:
> Le Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:56:31 +0100,
> Michael Schwartzkopff <misch at multinet.de> a écrit :
>
>> Am Dienstag, 12. Januar 2010 14:48:12 schrieb Emmanuel Lesouef:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > We use a rather old (in fact, very old) combination :
>> >
>> > heartbeat 2.99 + openhpi 2.12
>> >
>> > What do you suggest in order to upgrade to the latest version of
>> > pacemaker ?
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>>
>> http://www.clusterlabs.org/wiki/Upgrade
>>
>
> Thanks for your answer. I already saw :
> http://www.clusterlabs.org/doc/en-US/Pacemaker/1.0/html/Pacemaker_Explained/ap-upgrade.html
>
> In fact, my question wans't about the upgrading process but more about
> polling this list about caveats, advices or best practice when dealing
> with rather old & uncommon configuration.

Biggest caveat is the networking issue that makes pacemaker 1.0
wire-incompatible with pacemaker 0.6 (and heartbeat 2.1.x).
So rolling upgrades are out and you'd need to look at one of the other
upgrade strategies.