[Ocfs2-users] Userspace heartbeat in ocfs2 1.2.5 on RedHat Enterprise Linux

[Sunil Mushran]

Userspace hb is a suse extension to ocfs2. Only available on sles10.


Chakravarti, Avishek (STSD) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to configure ocfs2 1.2.5 to use user-space heartbeat on
> Redhat Enterprise Linux? 
>
> I was previously using ocfs2 1.2.3 on SLES10 and had configured
> Heartbeat2.0 to do replace the disk based heartbeat natively used in
> ocfs2. Recently I moved to RHEL4 U4 with kernel 2.6.9-42.Elsmp and
> installed ocfs2-2.6.9-42.ELsmp-1.2.5-1 and the latest ocfs2-tools. On
> running the /etc/init.d/o2cb configure command I did not see the option
> to "Use user-space driven heartbeat? (y/n) [y]:" which was available on
> SLES10. Probing further, I found that the "ocfs2_user_heartbeat.ko"
> kernel object was not present in RedHat.
>
> Is there any way I can load this module in RedHat and use the userspace
> heartbeating? Or, would it be possible to replace o2cb completely and
> manage the entire membership through the filesystem.
>
> Thanks for your help!!
>
> - Avishek 
>
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