[Ocfs2-users] Also just a comment to the Oracle guys

[Alexei_Roudnev]

IF you need to DOWNLOAD and COMPILE KERNEL component

THEN

this system is not production ready.

ENDIF

(Reason - your personal combination of module, kernel, libraries and other
components was never tested in the wild).


Don't forget, when testing OCFSv2 on iSCSI, that it require 3 (not 2)
servers for the stable cluster configuration, and that, if you use iSCSI,
you may want to increase heartbeat timeout few times (default is 12 seconds,
and Ethernet convergence time is 40 - 50 seconds).



> After over a week of trying to figure out what to do about a cluster
> system, and over 5 days of trying to compile, install, configure
> redhat's GFS, i got frustrated and gave up and took another look at
> ocfs2 today.
>
> I have to say, you guys put this together pretty slick. I do still
> want to try out GFS but after 5 days of mucking around with
> downloading different versions of 4 or 5 different software pieces
> (device-mapper, openais, cluster, lvm2, udev) and not getting ANYWHERE
> i gave up.
>
> so today I installed a new linux-2.6.19.2 kernel with ocsfs2 modules,
> installed iscsi-target on a test server using a 500g sata drive and
> then installed the ocsfs2-tools-1.2.2 rpm on two FC6 machines and got
> it all working in one work day today. I had to do a little messing
> around with the configs and iscsi stuff, and figuring out to increase
> the heartbeat timeout to prevent self fencing and stuff, but once that
> was done it was pretty cool.
>
> So heres a good job on keeping things pretty damn simple! Install a
> kernel and one rpm and make a configuration file and thats about all
> it took. Very nice!
>
> Im looking forward to doing a bunch of testing tomorrow after i do an
> entire clean os install on all the machines and see if i run into any
> problems.
>
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