Re: [Ocfs2-users] Ocfs2-users Digest, Vol 73, Issue 2

2010-01-15 Thread David Johle
For anyone following the issue I brought up below, Sunil has determined that it is a bug that has been fixed in a development version beyond the current 1.4.3 stable release. So it's just a cosmetic issue that we'll have to live with for now, no big deal. Sunil, thanks for your time and help i

Re: [Ocfs2-users] esx elevator=noop

2010-01-15 Thread Brian Kroth
At least in ESX you can setup various reservations and priority weightings for various resources to unsure that some machines are considered more important than others. As to what actually happens in practice, who knows. Thanks for the info, Brian Herbert van den Bergh 2010-01-15 11:20: > > I w

Re: [Ocfs2-users] esx elevator=noop

2010-01-15 Thread Herbert van den Bergh
I would assume that all bets are off if you're running a cluster inside a vm. There are no garantees for either I/O or cpu scheduling. Thanks, Herbert. On 01/15/2010 10:50 AM, Sunil Mushran wrote: > The deadline recommendation was for early el4 kernels that had a bug > in cfq. That bug was fi

Re: [Ocfs2-users] esx elevator=noop

2010-01-15 Thread Sunil Mushran
The deadline recommendation was for early el4 kernels that had a bug in cfq. That bug was fixed years ago. I am unsure how using noop in guest will trigger starvation. Not that I am recommending it. I have not thought about this much. On Jan 15, 2010, at 9:55 AM, Brian Kroth wrote: > http:/

[Ocfs2-users] esx elevator=noop

2010-01-15 Thread Brian Kroth
http://lonesysadmin.net/2008/02/21/elevatornoop/ I ran across this recently which describes, when operating in a virtual environment with shared storage, how to try and let the storage and hypervisor deal with arranging disk write operations in a more globally optimal way rather than having all th

Re: [Ocfs2-users] OCFS2 1.2.9-1 RHEL5

2010-01-15 Thread Sunil Mushran
We will continue to provide ocfs2 1.2 packages for newer (rh)el4 kernels. For (rh)el5, ocfs2 1.2 packages are available for GA to U3. Ocfs2 1.4 packages are available for U2 onwards. To answer your qs, no, 1.2 package will not be made available for the (rh)el5 u4 kernel you've mentioned.

[Ocfs2-users] OCFS2 1.2.9-1 RHEL5

2010-01-15 Thread Matthew Moore
Hi, I still need to use 1.2.9-1 of OCFS2 as I have an older RHEL4 server that needs to share the filesystem. I noticed that there have been no updates and kernel 2.6.18-164.10.1 is out for RHEL5. Are you going to release updates or have you now finished with 1.2.9-1 for RHEL5? Many thanks Mat