Hi Randy, El mié, 07-11-2007 a las 15:48 -0500, Randy Ramsdell escribió: > Jorge Cabello wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm trying to use ocfs2 as the root filesystem for xen virtual nodes. If > > I leave ocfs2 as a module the system doesn't boot as it doesn't find a > > supported filesystem for the root partition. > > > > > How does the VM access the shared storage? Lets say you use Iscsi. > For the root partition to mount an ocfs2 volume, you will need to log in > to the iscsi target and then mount the ocfs2 volume all this handled by > the initrd. This may be difficult to accomplish. I would start with > getting a iscsi target (ext3 ) root partition working , then work on > ocfs2.
Its a local hard drive. Im going to take a look to Open-Sharedroot as Marc point out. It looks like they have already done what im trying to do. > > I have also tried to include ocfs2 inside the kernel (not as a module) > > on the virtual node to be able to mount the root partition but it also > > doesnt work. With this option I'm not even able to mount other > > partitions as o2cb doesn't find the module. > > > Once again, try mounting the root partition on boot only using iscsi. > This is easier as you avoid creating a custom initrd. > > Has anyone been able to do something similar to this? Do I need to do > > anything special to include ocfs2 inside the kernel so I can mount the > > root partition at boot? > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ocfs2-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs2-users > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ocfs2-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs2-users > > _______________________________________________ Ocfs2-users mailing list [email protected] http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs2-users
