[Ocfs2-users] Getting Started with ocfs2

[Sunil Mushran]

Martin J. Evans wrote:
>> fine but on selecting cluster/configure nodes I still get dialogue
>> saying "Could not query the state of the cluster stack. This must be
>> resolved before any OCFS2 filesystemcan be mounted."
>>     
Could be because the script is installed as o2cb and not o2cb.init.

>> Fedora Core release 5 (Bordeaux)
>>
>> with ocfs2 tools installed by downloading the source and the usual
>> configure and make (version ocfs2-tools-1.2.1.tar.gz) because the rpms I
>> saw seemed ages (years) out of date.
>>     
ocfs2-tools 1.2.1 was the last one released. We are working on releasing 
tools 1.2.2.

> I'm new to this so I may be missing a lot but following the instructions
> in the user guide did not get me to this point:
>
> 1. the ocfs2console does not run without setting my PYTHONPATH first - I
> don't know why.
> 2. the ocfs2console does not seem to create the /etc/ocfs2/cluster.conf
> (for me anyway).
> 3. if you install the ocfs2 tools from the rpm it create a minor
> cluster.conf which ocfs2console does not seem to like since you can't
> add nodes. If you install from the source code you don't even get a
> cluster.conf.
>
> I am willing to accept I've missed things but what were they? Does
> everyone go through this?
>   
I would hope not.