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

[Peter Santos]

I got it now.

doing a "modinfo ocfs2" returns 1.4.1-1-SLES ..now that we've upgraded
to kernel 2.6.16.60-0.33-smp.

-peter



Sunil Mushran wrote:
> 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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