[Ocfs2-users] OCFS2 and Heartbeat

[Michael Brennen]

On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Sunil Mushran wrote:

> SLES10 ships OCFS2 that can be configured with userspace heartbeat 
> (linux-ha).

Thanks for the update.  For Centos5 would it be necessary to hand 
compile the latest kernel source?  It just isn't clear to me what 
the process is to configure the userspace hooks for heartbeat.

> Michael Brennen wrote:
>>  Hi all,
>>
>>  I am looking to use OCFS2 in a general heartbeat managed cluster, running
>>  the cluster file system over iscsi.  Apparently to get OCFS2 to work with
>>  heartbeat there are some userland patches that must be applied.
>>
>>  I am running Centos 5.1 system on the cluster.  Is the best way to get the
>>  userland patches to hand install the latest 2.6 kernel, or is it possible
>>  to manually apply the OCFS2 patches directly to the source of the Centos
>>  kernel?  I've tried googling this but haven't come across much to give
>>  specific guidance.  Thanks much,

    -- Michael