[CentOS] GFS on 4.4 vs. C5 <c5 working>

Wed May 30 20:51:32 UTC 2007
Karl R. Balsmeier <karl at klxsystems.net>

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 the required kernel modules from the csgfs repo are way out of date, 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