Hi, On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 14:27 -0700, Craig Johnston wrote: > We would like to achieve a stable GFS/GFS2 cluster configuration using > a non-Redhat distribution that is based on a 2.6.21 kernel. Our first > attempt was to obtain the Fedora Core 7 source rpms for the various > components (cman, rgmanager, openais, etc.). We were successful in > incorporating these packages into our distribution, and creating what > should be a working cluster configuration with multiple nodes sharing > a set of GFS2 file systems from an iSCSI SAN. > > The problem is that it is all very unstable, takes forever to > start-up, and locks up under even small load. We would like to move > to a more recent version of the cluster suite and update the kernel > gfs2 and dlm modules for a 2.6.21 kernel. We need to stick with > 2.6.21 for other reasons (vendor support mostly), and we figure if it > all can be back ported for RHEL5.1 (2.6.18) it should be doable for > 2.6.21. We just don't know where to start. > > Any advice on how we might proceed on this process would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > Craig > If you want to use GFS2, then try F-8, or rawhide with the most uptodate set of packages. I would not recommend using a kernel that old for GFS2, Steve. > -- > Linux-cluster mailing list > Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
