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Re: ipvsadm trees

To: "LinuxVirtualServer.org users mailing list." <lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: ipvsadm trees
From: Horms <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 15:52:38 +0900
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 12:17:13AM -0500, Joseph Mack wrote:
> Horms wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 10:43:06AM -0500, Joseph Mack wrote:
> > > Alejandro Mery wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi, i have a machine which boot both, linux2.4 and linux2.6. i want to
> > > > use ipvs on both, what should i do with ipvsadm? can i use ipvsadm-1.24
> > > > to admin lx2.4 or ipvsadm-1.21 for lx2.4 and 1.24 for lx2.6?
> > >
> > > The way they were written you have to use a version of ipvsadm for each
> > > kernel. I would rather one giant ipvsadm that detects the kernel and does
> > > the right thing. However Horms is the one who's doing most of the 
> > > maintenance
> > > and he's happy with the way he's doing it.
> > 
> > I am not sure that either of those stathements are true.
> 
> oh well. I need to have a few more beers with you in that case.

Good idea.

> > I would definately rather ipvsadm had the same kind of
> > semantics as modutils. That is something like this:
> > 
> > You always invoke ipvsadm regardless of your kernel.
> > If you only have ipvsadm-1.21 or ipvsadm-1.24 installed,
> > then that is always run and it complains if there is a kernel
> > version missmatch. If you have both installed then ipvsadm-1.24
> > is always run, but if it detects a 2.4 kernel, then it execs
> > ipvsadm 1.21.
> 
> OK that's fine with me.

I recently posted some patches to this list to do that.
Not sure if Wensong has seen them.

> > Also, the current version numbers are quite aquard, 
>                                               ^^^^^^
> 
> you've been in Japan too long :-) "awkward"

No, my spelling has always been terrible.

-- 
Horms

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