[CentOS] Next3 (eg ext3 snapshots support) on OpenNode / CentOS 5 / RHEL 5 howto and rpms

Lucian lucian at lastdot.org
Thu Mar 10 07:51:56 UTC 2011


On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:15 AM, Andres Toomsalu <andres at active.ee> wrote:
> We have created an next3 and patched e2fsprogs OpenNode / CentOS 5 / RHEL 5 rpms - installable from opennode-test yum repo. Provided next3 kernel module is currently built against  RHEL5 OpenVZ kernel used in OpenNode - so installing this next3 rpm package on your CentOS 5 or RHEL 5 host will install also OpenVZ patched RHEL5 kernel and newer e2fsprogs package.
>
> Installation and usage instructions are provided by this howto document: http://opennode.activesys.org/documentation/howtos/next3-snapshots/
> There is also simple next3 snapshotting automation script available for use with cron - usage and download link provided in howto document referenced above.

Impressive.
I guess I picked the wrong time to upgrade to ext4 :-)



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