Whats the history of the cluster project?
Somewhere around 1996, Red Hat developed its first Cluster Suite, which primarily managed cluster-cooperative services. That’s the equivalent of rgmanager now. From 1997 to 2003, Sistina Software was spun off from a project at the University of Minnesota, and they developed a clustering file system which became the Global File System, GFS, which it sold to customers. In 2004, Red Hat, Inc. bought Sistina, merged GFS into its Cluster Suite, and open-sourced the whole thing. Today, the cluster project belongs to the people and is available for free to the public through Red Hat’s CVS repository. The open-source community continues to improve and develop the cluster project with new clustering technology and infrastructures, such as OpenAIS.
