Re: [gentoo-server] Issues with GFS.

[Brian Kroth <bpkroth@wisc.edu>]

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I have also been dealing with this.  There aren't any gfs2 tools in
portage yet, and as I'm doing a new install I didn't want to go with an
"old" gfs, especially since the kernel module doesn't work with newer
kernels anymore.  I ended up writing my own ebuilds.  Have a look at these
links below for more info.  The offsite link in the forum post is more up
to date (better init scripts).  If you're upgrading from gfs please let me
know how that goes with the new ebuilds.  I think they should work just
fine, but I haven't tested it yet.

Thanks,
Brian

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=184850
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-4732772.html#4732772
https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/bpkroth/web/gentoo/fs-cluster-ebuilds/fs-cluster_ebuilds.tar.bz2

BTW, I long time ago I posted a question regarding OCFS2 vs. GFS2.  In my
research I decided OCFS2 didn't have all the features I wanted (quotas,
acls, cluster flock, etc.) but I did run some simple benchmarks of how
they respond with multiple clients.  Basically just "iozone -a" on 5 machines at
once.  Here's another link in case anyone's interested.  Sorry for the
format, but I had a student make them "pretty" and he used MS Excel 2007.

https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/bpkroth/web/fs-cluster/fs-cluster-iozone-results.xls


"Todd M. Hébert" <todd@iil.ie>:
> Hello all, 
> I'm hoping someone has dealt with this by now.
> 
> The kernel seems only to support GFS2, but the user-space tools seem to only support GFS (GFS1?) 
> 
> So.. I am able to format GFS filesystems in userspace, but I cannot mount them because the kernel doesn't understand them. (and the separate GFS kernel module will not compile,.. maybe because the one in the kernel source that handles GFS2 uses some of the same necessary bits?)
> 
> I need to find a way to get either GFS or GFS2 working properly. (I'd think GFS2 would be preferable.)
> 
> I'm using the 2007.0 profile, and I already have the cluster elements configured, and only need to format & mount the filesystems at this point.
> 
> Can anyone point me to a resource that will help me get this last bit sorted?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> --Todd
> 
> (P.S. Pardon anything below this line.. it is required under Irish law. --TMH)
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