Comments on: Notes on setting up a GFS cluster on Redhat ES 3

By: dirtbag

dirtbag — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 02:55:32 +0000

hey, Im trying to do this now and When I do
[jason@tf1 SRPMS]$ uname -a
Linux tf1.localdomain 2.4.21-40.ELsmp #1 SMP Thu Feb 2 22:22:39 EST 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

[jason@tf1 SRPMS]$ rpmbuild -bs /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/gfs-build.spec
error: Failed build dependencies:
kernel-source = 2.4.21-40.ELsmp is needed by GFS-6.0.2.30-0
[jason@tf1 SRPMS]$

How do I get around this as Im running a smp kernel..

[jason@tf1 SRPMS]$ rpm -qa | grep -i kernel
kernel-2.4.21-4.EL
kernel-source-2.4.21-40.EL
kernel-pcmcia-cs-3.1.31-19
kernel-2.4.21-40.EL
kernel-smp-2.4.21-4.EL
kernel-utils-2.4-8.37.14
kernel-smp-2.4.21-40.EL
[jason@tf1 SRPMS]$

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 23:44:40 +0000

hmm, i dont remember anything about 'fenced.' i could be wrong, but i think lock_gulmd does the fencing. it just launches a perl script for your particular switch type. if you dont have an apc, im pretty sure there's a way to write a script for whatever switch you have (assuming its managable via telnet/ssh/whatever).

By: Noel

Noel — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 23:20:12 +0000

I just want to say these notes helped me to get things going nicely, Thanks a lot!

Question, why is there no fenced? I have been trying to figure out why manual fencing is not working properly and that seems to be part of the problem. As far as I can tell fenced is supposed to create a /tmp/fence_manual.fifo. Without fenced there is no fifo and no way to manually fence. Any thoughts? Oh, and yes, I already tried to talk my boss into buying an APC, might as well try to teach pigs to sing.