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

[Sunil Mushran]

That's ocfs2-tools.

I was referring to the filesystem (kernel module). Make sure you are
on kernel 2.6.16.60-0.31 or higher as it has the 1.4.1 fs.

Peter Santos wrote:
> Sunil,
>  we just called Novell and they tell us that the latest version of OCFS2
> on SLES10 SP2 is 1.4.0?
>  There seems to be an SKD patch that includes 1.4.0.5 ... but no 1.4.1?
>
>  Do you know if they make that available via the standard distribution?
>
> -peter
>
> Sunil Mushran wrote:
>   
>> 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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