After over a week of trying to figure out what to do about a cluster system, and over 5 days of trying to compile, install, configure redhat's GFS, i got frustrated and gave up and took another look at ocfs2 today.
I have to say, you guys put this together pretty slick. I do still want to try out GFS but after 5 days of mucking around with downloading different versions of 4 or 5 different software pieces (device-mapper, openais, cluster, lvm2, udev) and not getting ANYWHERE i gave up. so today I installed a new linux-2.6.19.2 kernel with ocsfs2 modules, installed iscsi-target on a test server using a 500g sata drive and then installed the ocsfs2-tools-1.2.2 rpm on two FC6 machines and got it all working in one work day today. I had to do a little messing around with the configs and iscsi stuff, and figuring out to increase the heartbeat timeout to prevent self fencing and stuff, but once that was done it was pretty cool. So heres a good job on keeping things pretty damn simple! Install a kernel and one rpm and make a configuration file and thats about all it took. Very nice! Im looking forward to doing a bunch of testing tomorrow after i do an entire clean os install on all the machines and see if i run into any problems. _______________________________________________ Ocfs2-users mailing list [email protected] http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs2-users
