[WBEL-users] Red Hat GFS
Johnny Hughes
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On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 17:51, Raimo Koski wrote:
> 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.
For anyone interested in building / trying GFS, you can get the SRPMS
from here:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/3/en/RHGFS/i386/SRPMS/
I am looking at it right now, and trying to build the SRPMS ... I'll
post how it goes later. (I'm sure it's also on the redhat mirrors)
Johnny Hughes
HughesJR.com
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On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 17:51, Raimo Koski wrote:
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#737373"><I>Ed wrote:
> Erik Williamson wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I saw in slashdot yesterday that Red Hat is releasing GFS
>> (</FONT><A HREF="http://www.redhat.com/software/rha/gfs/"><U>http://www.redhat.com/software/rha/gfs/</U></A><FONT COLOR="#737373">) 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.</I></FONT></PRE>
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For anyone interested in building / trying GFS, you can get the SRPMS from here:<BR>
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<A HREF="ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/3/en/RHGFS/i386/SRPMS/">ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/3/en/RHGFS/i386/SRPMS/</A><BR>
<BR>
I am looking at it right now, and trying to build the SRPMS ... I'll post how it goes later. (I'm sure it's also on the redhat mirrors)<BR>
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