[Ocfs2-users] Upgrading ocfs2 when applying kernel patches.

[Sunil Mushran]

1.2.4-2/2.6.9-55 for x86 and x86-64 have been uploaded. If you are some 
other
arch, do let me know.

http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/files/RedHat/RHEL4/i386/old/1.2.4-2/2.6.9-55.EL/
http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/files/RedHat/RHEL4/x86_64/old/1.2.4-2/2.6.9-55.EL/

mwoods at fnal.gov wrote:
> Sunil,
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> A version of 1.2.4 for the 2.6.9-55 kernel would be very helpful. Please
> provide one.
>
> This would allow me to apply an ocfs that is compatible to the new kernel
> and then plan a more extensive outage later to upgrade all the servers at
> one time to the 1.2.5 ocfs version.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike Woods
>
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> Or we could provide 1.2.4 for 2.6.9-55. If you still have this
> issue, we could always do that. Let me know.
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> mwoods at fnal.gov wrote:
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>> I am in the middle of rolling RHEL 4 update 5 ( 2.6.9-55) through my
>> servers. We use a development, QA, and production rollout.
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>> Unfortunately I have ocfs members in each of these groups that need to
>> share filesystems.
>> The network compatibility issues between ocfs2 tools 1.2.4 and 1.2.5 are
>> causing the members to not be able to operate with ocfs.
>> Hence this breaks my systems or causes me to upgraded at a minumum OCFS
>>     
> on
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>> all my servers at the same Time once a new kernel starts to be rolled
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> out.
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>> Can these incompatible version changes be kept to a minimum and / or can
>> the previous tools version be compiled for the last kernel version.( ie
>> 1.2.4 stopped at kernel 2.6.9.42) so to use 2.6.9-55 I needed to move to
>> 1.2.5.
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>> How does anyone else manage this. The current system makes it difficult
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> to
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>> use this in a production environment.
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>> Thanks for any assistance you can provide
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