Hi all,
I want to use GFS for a webcluster with shared data through a iSCSI SAN.
The cluster nodes are diskless and boot through PXE by downloading a
kernel and rootfs that is stored in RAM. I have built a custom minimal
Linux system with LFS (http://linuxfromscratch.org) to keep the image as
small as possible (the smallest Fedora/RedHat I could get by stripping
RPMs was still 650MB).
I would like to work without kernel modules and therefore I would like
to know whether it is possible to patch the 2.6 kernel to include GFS
'statically' (i.e. no kernel modules). As far as I cann tell the
cluster-1.02.00 package I downloaded builds kernel modules.
In addition I would like to know what minimal requirements I need to use
GFS. The load balancing itself will be done on other machines with a
different setup. Hence I would like to refrain from installing any of
that functionality on the cluster nodes. From reading the docs I get the
impression GFS needs a whole lot of clustering packages.
Thanks!
Jonathan
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