I am doing research on getting an operational GFS setup on 3 servers I have centos 4.4/64 built on. I can of course upgrade the to 4.5, but is it smarter to try centos 5 for this or can I get away with getting this working on 4.4/4.5? (basically trying to eliminate the need to visit the colo.)
-krb
Hi Karl, unfortunately, cluster suite support is broken in 4.4 and 4.5, at least if you upgrade beyond release 4.4 with kernel 2.6.9-42.0.3.EL . With 2.6.9-42.0.3.EL, it works fine.
Since nobody seems to care about those packages, go for CentOS 5 with GFS2.
-Jan
Karl R. Balsmeier schrieb:
I am doing research on getting an operational GFS setup on 3 servers I have centos 4.4/64 built on. I can of course upgrade the to 4.5, but is it smarter to try centos 5 for this or can I get away with getting this working on 4.4/4.5? (basically trying to eliminate the need to visit the colo.)
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Jan Koop wrote:
Hi Karl, unfortunately, cluster suite support is broken in 4.4 and 4.5, at least if you upgrade beyond release 4.4 with kernel 2.6.9-42.0.3.EL . With 2.6.9-42.0.3.EL, it works fine.
broken how ? is there a bug number for this ?
Karanbir Singh schrieb:
Jan Koop wrote:
Hi Karl, unfortunately, cluster suite support is broken in 4.4 and 4.5, at least if you upgrade beyond release 4.4 with kernel 2.6.9-42.0.3.EL . With 2.6.9-42.0.3.EL, it works fine.
broken how ? is there a bug number for this ?
Hi Karanbir,
the required kernel modules from the csgfs repo are way out of date, there's this bug report #0002017 : http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2017 . The kernel modules in the csgfs repo are for kernels 2.6.9-42 , 2.6.9-42.0.2 , and 2.6.9-42.0.3 only.
Jan
Jan Koop wrote:
Karanbir Singh schrieb:
Jan Koop wrote:
Hi Karl, unfortunately, cluster suite support is broken in 4.4 and 4.5, at least if you upgrade beyond release 4.4 with kernel 2.6.9-42.0.3.EL . With 2.6.9-42.0.3.EL, it works fine.
broken how ? is there a bug number for this ?
Hi Karanbir,
the required kernel modules from the csgfs repo are way out of date, there's this bug report #0002017 : http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2017 . The kernel modules in the csgfs repo are for kernels 2.6.9-42 , 2.6.9-42.0.2 , and 2.6.9-42.0.3 only.
Jan, thanks for bringing this up again - I am actually working on a process to fix this issue and keep it fixed in the future. More info on this shortly, but rest assured that the problem will get fixed for both CentOS-4 and CentOS-5 within the next 2 - 3 days.
Regards,
Karanbir Singh wrote:
Jan Koop wrote:
Karanbir Singh schrieb:
Jan Koop wrote:
Hi Karl, unfortunately, cluster suite support is broken in 4.4 and 4.5, at least if you upgrade beyond release 4.4 with kernel 2.6.9-42.0.3.EL . With 2.6.9-42.0.3.EL, it works fine.
broken how ? is there a bug number for this ?
Hi Karanbir,
the required kernel modules from the csgfs repo are way out of date, there's this bug report #0002017 : http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2017 . The kernel modules in the csgfs repo are for kernels 2.6.9-42 , 2.6.9-42.0.2 , and 2.6.9-42.0.3 only.
Jan, thanks for bringing this up again - I am actually working on a process to fix this issue and keep it fixed in the future. More info on this shortly, but rest assured that the problem will get fixed for both CentOS-4 and CentOS-5 within the next 2 - 3 days.
Regards,
Gentlemen, -thanks so much.
I actually remember walking to the colo yesterday to install Centos 5 and muttering to my co-worker "I wanted to use 4.4/4.5 but it seems prone to breakage based on my efforts". -essentially i'd like to end up being one of the first to generate a full step-by-step HOWTO/wiki entry on getting this all operational using a Vsftpd daemon and iSCSI or Fibre Channel solution.
I have three servers running the proper installation now, and seem to be well on the way to establishing my first production Cluster.
-krb
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