[Ocfs2-users] Problems building ocfs2 rpm on Fedora 9

[Sunil Mushran]

Use an enterprise kernel.

Tina Soles wrote:
> OK, another snag.  Fedora 9 does not support RAW devices, so I can't
> configure the voting disk or OCR disk to be as such.  Any suggestions? I
> think I'm "up a creek" here...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: SUNIL.MUSHRAN at ORACLE.COM [mailto:SUNIL.MUSHRAN at ORACLE.COM] 
> Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 11:20 PM
> To: Tao Ma; Tina Soles
> Cc: ocfs2-users at oss.oracle.com
> Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] Problems building ocfs2 rpm on Fedora 9
>
> datavolume mount option is only on ocfs2 for enterprise kernels.
>
> For most part, you shouldn't require it for using it as a datastore.
> Instead set init.ora param filesystemio_options to directio (or is it
> odirect).
>
> The only bit that won't work here is using ocfs2 for the voting disk and
> ocr... as datavolume is necessary to force enable odirect.
> But you can always use raw for that.
>
> Sunil
>