[Ocfs2-users] Getting Started with ocfs2

[John Peeken, Linux OS Support]

Martin,
http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/documentation/
See the OCFS2 FAQ and the users guide.
Follow the steps on OC2B Cluster Service Loading
regards,
John Peeken
Linux OS Support

Martin J. Evans wrote:

>I am trying to use ocfs2 and wanted to know if anyone knew of a good getting
>started guide as I'm struggling to find a one which is relevant for ocfs2. So
>far I've loaded the ocfs2 kernel modules (linux) and installed the ocfs2 tools,
>I managed to mkfs.ocfs2 a partition but:
>
>1. ocfs2console errored with
>
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/local/sbin/ocfs2console", line 3, in ?
>    from ocfs2interface.about import process_args
>ImportError: No module named ocfs2interface.about
>
>I don't know what the correct fix for this but if I run the ocfsconsole with
>PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages it works. I can see ocfstools
>installed the ocfs python packages here and I don't see wht python is not
>looking in the site dir.
>
>2. Now I can run ocfs2console I run with -N to configure my noeds and just get
>a dialogue saying:
>
>Could not query the state of the cluster stack.This must be resolved before any
>OCFS2 filesystemcan be mounted.
>
>In case it makes a diference /etc/init.d/o2cb.init status shows
>
>Module "configfs": Loaded
>Filesystem "configfs": Not mounted
>Module "ocfs2_nodemanager": Loaded
>Module "ocfs2_dlm": Loaded
>Module "ocfs2_dlmfs": Not loaded
>Filesystem "ocfs2_dlmfs": Not mounted
>
>I am using ocfs2-tools-1.2.1.
>
>I am a bit stuck for now at this point.
>
>Any ideas or pointers?
>
>Martin
>--
>Martin J. Evans
>Easysoft Ltd, UK
>http://www.easysoft.com
>
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