[Ocfs2-users] Which version of ocfs2/tools is stable on SLES10 SP2

[Sunil Mushran]

Get the latest sles10 sp2 kernel. It includes 1.4.1-SLES.

Peter Santos wrote:
> Guys,
>  Quick question?
>  
>  We have had ocfs2 1.2 running for a few years now in our SLES9 SP3
> environments, and these are used
>  just fine for offloading database backups and archivelogs from Oracle's
> ASM (10.2.0.3).
>
>  Last week we installed SLES10 SP2 and ocfs2 on a 2 node RAC cluster
> using Oracle 11g.
>
>  The 2 nodes stay up just fine with the Oracle clusterware, and even
> with the ocfs2 mounted
>  on both nodes.  However when we try to scp data onto either of these
> machines from the outside, somewhere
>  in the middle of the scp, one of the nodes locks up and crashes.  We
> monitered the interconnect and the
>  reason the machine is crashing is because at some point during the
> copy, the interconnect goes dead and no
>  more packets are able to pass through the interconnect.
>
>  When doing the scp, it doesn't matter if we are scp'ing to the ocfs2
> partition or to a local partion
>  on a completely separate disk. ..either way will cause usually the
> first node to lock up.
>
>  We are using ocfs2 1.4.0 and not sure if this is really stable. We
> noticed the ocfs2_hb_ctl utility generated
>  some errors during install and it seems like no matter what we do, we
> can't get the O2CB_HEARTBEAT_THRESHOLD to change
>  from its default value. Even if we update the O2CB_HEARTBEAT_THRESHOLD
> value in the /etc/sysconfig/o2cb , the value
>  from the output of /etc/init.d/o2cb status is always 31.
>
>  Any experiences where 1.4.0 is unstable?  Also where do I get 1.4.1 ?
>
>  thanks.
>
> -peter
>
>
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