[WBEL-users] Red Hat GFS

[Raimo Koski]

Ed wrote:
> Erik Williamson wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I saw in slashdot yesterday that Red Hat is releasing GFS 
>> (http://www.redhat.com/software/rha/gfs/) to the masses.  I was about 
>> to roll out 3 WBEL File servers here, but in light of this, I'm 
>> wondering of the chances that this would work with Whitebox - has 
>> anyone tried, or is anyone planning on trying?
> 
> 
> White box uses the RHEL kernel.  It is unlikely that RH will backport 
> GFS to their stable 3.0.  If you want to compile your own kernel, it 
> might work but the WBEL kernel is heavily patched and some of the 
> patches are needed by userland (there would be more work involved than 
> just patching a "vanilla" 2.4 or 2.6 kernel).  So maybe FC2 would be a 
> better option if you want to play with GFS.

RHGFS binaries ($2200) require RHEL 3.0 and 2.4.21-15.EL kernel. Red Hat 
doesn't support GFS on Fedora. Lineox has built GFS binaries for 
2.4.21-15.0.2.EL and 2.4.21-15.0.3.EL kernels.

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