[WBEL-users] Red Hat GFS

[Nick Bright]

Hi,

 I downloaded and installed your GFS packages on my WBEL system w/
2.4.21-15.0.3.ELsmp kernel. I installed the following packages:

GFS-6.0.0-1.2.i686.rpm
GFS-devel-6.0.0-1.2.i686.rpm
GFS-modules-6.0.0-1.2.i686.rpm
rh-gfs-en-6.0-4.noarch.rpm
perl-Net-Telnet-3.03-2.noarch.rpm

I used the i686 versions since I am on P4 Xeon arch.

I was able to successfully create a GFS filesystem on my SAN (via
qlogicfc module) but when I try to mount with this command:

mount -t gfs /dev/sdc /mnt/san

I recieve an error:

mount: fs type gfs not supported by kernel

Is there something else I need to do/install? Or did I do something
wrong? I did reboot after installing the RPM's in case there was some
kind of init daemon that had to start (there is a "gfs" script in
/etc/init.d). Also, would having installed the GFS-devel RPM cause a
problem? I wouldn't think so. I installed it in case there was some kind
of dependancy somewhere to satisfy.

Thanks in advance for any advice or help.

-- 
- Nick Bright
  Terraworld, Inc
  http://home.terraworld.net | 888-332-1616

On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 07:51, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> I have completed building this for WBEL.  You can download files here:
> 
> GFS Downloads
> 
> See the RedHat Documentation on GFS for how to install.
> 
> The RPM files I have provided will only install on the
> 2.4.21-15.0.3.EL kernel.
> 
> The src.rpm file will build on either the WBEL (or RHEL) 2.4.21-15.EL,
> 2.4.21-15.0.2.EL, or 2.4.21-15.0.3.EL (or any other clone where the
> kernel name is exactly the same).  It will _not_ build on TaoLinux or
> CentOS because the Kernel names have been modified.  I will make
> TaoLinux and CentOS source RPMs later today.
> 
> If you are downloading rpms for install ... you need a GFS and
> GFS-modules for your kernel type (normal, smp, hugemem) and your arch
> (i386, i686, athlon).
> 
> Johnny Hughes
> HughesJR.com
> 
> On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 19:10, Johnny Hughes wrote: 
> > 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)