[Ocfs2-users] new release 1.4.8.1

Dag Wieers dag at wieers.com
Tue Dec 7 04:07:05 PST 2010


On Mon, 6 Dec 2010, Sunil Mushran wrote:

> On 12/06/2010 03:34 PM, Dag Wieers wrote:
>
>> > 
>> >  OCFS2 1.6 is not a separate package but is part of the Unbreakable 
>> >  Enterprise
>> >  Kernel (UEK) which is 2.6.32 based. The features in 1.6 will not be 
>> >  backported
>> >  to 2.6.18.
>>
>>  For the ocfs2 1.6, it would be nice to have it also for the RHEL6 kernel,
>>  which is 2.6.32-based. I failed to build ocfs2 1.4.7 for RHEL6, so I was
>>  hoping a newer release was available to support RHEL6. That's how I found
>>  that ocfs2 1.4.8 packages existed :)
>>
>>  I noticed people reported problems with ocfs2 1.6 (on slackware). How did
>>  they get access to the releases ? We really would like to keep offering
>>  ocfs2 for RHEL5 and RHEL6 in the future through the ELRepo project.
>
> The slackware issue was concerning building ocfs2-tools-1.6.3.

Does this mean that the ocfs2 1.6 sources are not publically available ?

And that ocfs2-tools 1.6.3 is the successor of ocfs2_tools 1.4.4 and to be 
used with ocfs2 1.4.7 or ocfs2 1.4.8 ?

What is the solution for people interested in running ocfs2 on 
RHEL6/CentOS-6 ?

Thanks in advancd,
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