[Ocfs2-devel] FYI: RedHat open-sourced GFS/DLM/cluster stuff last week

[Wim Coekaerts]

the stuff for rhel3 is still msotly the old stuff 

yeah we um have good access to redhat stuff, but good for the folks not
in our group, on this list.

Wim

On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 02:25:34PM -0700, Cahill, Ben M wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> If you haven't heard about it already, I thought folks on the list might
> be interested to know that RH open-sourced (GPL) a whole bunch of stuff
> that had been Sistina's commercial software offering for shared/cluster
> filesystem (GFS) and related support.
> 
> The biggest surprise for me was that it includes a "redesigned from the
> ground up" distributed lock manager (DLM) modeled after the same
> VaxCluster/VMS DLM that inspired OpenDLM.  It also includes the g-lock
> layer that I was talking about a week or two ago, so you can plug in
> different lock managers and perform operations at specific times during
> the lifetime of a specific lock type.
> 
> There's some good reading about the whole GFS/DLM/cluster thing at:
> 
> http://people.redhat.com/~teigland/sca.pdf
> 
> The cluster project page:
> 
> http://sources.redhat.com/cluster/
> 
> And the specific GFS project page:
> 
> http://sources.redhat.com/cluster/gfs/
> 
> CVS in the project pages contains stuff for 2.6.7.  Source for 2.4 GFS
> is at:
> 
> ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/3/en/RHGFS/i386/SRPMS/
> 
> although I haven't been successful in accessing that, yet.  Daniel
> Phillips (RedHat) said that doesn't contain the latest goodies
> (including DLM IIRC).
> 
> -- Ben --
> 
> Opinions are mine, not Intel's 
> 
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