[CentOS] broken GFS

Fajar Priyanto fajarpri at cbn.net.id
Tue May 13 00:52:12 UTC 2008


On Tuesday 13 May 2008 04:20:46 Doug Tucker 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?

From my experience, if the production server is running OK, and the update is 
not security-related, then there is NO NEED to update in your situation.
If you DO want to update for whatever reason, test it first in a testbed.

Trust me. It comes from a traumatic experience :)

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