[Sheepdog] Documentation update

[Digimer]

On 11/24/2011 09:54 PM, Liu Yuan wrote:
> On 11/25/2011 12:33 AM, Digimer wrote:
>
>> On 11/24/2011 11:29 AM, MORITA Kazutaka wrote:
>>> At Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:58:02 -0500,
>>> Digimer wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 11/24/2011 01:07 AM, MORITA Kazutaka wrote:
>>>>> At Thu, 24 Nov 2011 00:39:34 -0500,
>>>>> Digimer wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'd like to suggest two changes to;
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://github.com/collie/sheepdog/wiki/Getting-Started
>>>>>>
>>>>>> First;
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The corosync repository
>>>>>> 'http://svn.fedorahosted.org/svn/corosync/branches/flatiron' is no
>>>>>> longer used and out of date. The new method, according to one of the
>>>>>> corosync developers, is on github. This was the method he helped me
>>>>>> use
>>>>>> to install (on EL6.0);
>>>>>>
>>>>>> yum -y remove corosync corosynclib corosynclib-devel
>>>>>> cd ~
>>>>>> git clone git://github.com/corosync/corosync.git
>>>>>> cd corosync
>>>>>> git checkout -b flatiron origin/flatiron
>>>>>> ./autogen.sh
>>>>>> ./configure --enable-nss
>>>>>> make install
>>>>>> cd ~
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Second;
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The /etc/init.d/sheepdog init.d script is hard-coded to expect the
>>>>>> sheepdog store at '/var/lib/sheepdog'. As such, the example 'sheep
>>>>>> /store_dir' is problematic because '/etc/init.d/sheepdog start'
>>>>>> will not
>>>>>> use it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Both look good to me.
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I would be happy to make the changes, but I didn't want to make any
>>>>>> edits without feedback and permission first.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks, feel free to modify wiki.  If you have a github account, you
>>>>> can edit it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> Kazutaka
>>>>
>>>> I've made the changes, please review and let me know if I made a mistake
>>>> or if you would like something changed.
>>>
>>> Looks good to me, thanks!
>>>
>>> Kazutaka
>>
>> Happy to help. As I learn, I would be happy to try an expand on the
>> documentation, if you folks would like. I rather enjoy documenting (odd,
>> I know :) ). When the time comes, I will post a new thread with my
>> proposals (I keep work-in-progress documents on my own site, so as to
>> not interfere with a project page).
>>
>> Cheers. :)
>>
>
>
> Updated documentation is badly needed and very important.
> Look forward to your work!
>
> Thanks,
> Yuan

Ok, I will work on my wiki, then report back when I think I have 
something to offer. Please note that I am working on sheepdog as a 
personal learning exercise, so progress will be slow, but I will keep at 
it. :)

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