[CentOS] broken GFS

[Scott Thistle]

Upstream updates cluster packages about a week after OS patches. I found
that out when putting in a new cluster and 4.6 came out. The cluster
packages lagged behind a week deliberately for stability's sake.

Scott

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 6:50 PM, Doug Tucker <tuckerd at engr.smu.edu> wrote:

> Tru,
>
> I work at a university.  They don't provide enough money for test
> environments :).  Just kinda odd, last time kernel update, gfs updated
> at the same time so all was well.  But twice now kernel has upgraded
> with no GFS so it went bye-bye.  Is the GFS being installed, compiled
> against particular kernel headers, or could I just copy the /fs/gfs
> and /fs/gfs_locking to the new kernel /lib/modules (or symlink for that
> matter) and be lucky enough it would work?
>
>
> On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 22:48 +0200, Tru Huynh wrote:
> > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 11:00:18PM +0300, Linux wrote:
> > > Well, I should add a terrible story for XFS...
> > >
> > > I did a "yum update" and after updating many packages I rebooted and
> viola...
> > You seem to enjoy living dangerously ? Don't you ever use a testing
> machine
> > before rolling the updates on a production server?
> > We appreciate your trust in our project, but you should always test on
> your
> > own setup.
> >
> > > Old xfs module ruined my 1.2TB partition. After updating to correct
> module and
> > > hours of xfs_repair I had to move and rename 500 subfolders from
> lost+found.
> > That is the 1st time I hear such a story: if the xfs module is not
> installed
> > for your new kernel, the only thing that should happen is the inability
> to
> > mount the XFS filesystem.
> > >
> > > I am using CentOS because I have to (for cPanel).
> > That's trolling, CPanel is NOT CentOS...
> >
> > Tru
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