On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 08:38:57PM +0200, Kresimir Kukulj wrote: > Quoting Benjamin Marzinski (bmarzins@xxxxxxxxxx): > > On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 03:53:00PM +0100, Gareth Bult wrote: > > > :) > > > > > > I do appreciate all that, however there are some press releases out > > > there that are not so clear .. > > > > > > There is certainly an implication in the news items I've seen that this > > > is "THE GFS" code .. as opposed to being a new and unstable version .. > > > > > > .. Incidentally, I was being kind - I've had many kernel crashes, even > > > after getting it going .. > > > > > > Regards, > > > Gareth. > > > > The code you are using is not the code currently being sold by redhat. > > That is the 6.0 code. You can download that in SRPM form at > > ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/3/en/RHGFS/i386/SRPMS/ > > > > There is fairly complete documentation for this code. However it does not use > > the DLM. Instead, GULM handles all the cluster manager issues. This code only > > runs on 2.4 kernels. > > > > The CVS code is going to be sold starting with RHEL 4. Some of the components, > > like the dlm are just now gotten out of the development stage. Others, like > > Is this new DLM still dependent on single lock storage or is it distributed > (like in OpenDLM) ? The DLM is fully distributed. -- patrick
