[Ocfs2-users] No space left on device error, older kernels?

[Sunil Mushran]

That kernel is 2.6.18 based. Too old. It's a lot of work. Specially in
testing. We'd rather utilise our resources on releasing this on EL6.

OCFS2 on EL6 will have all features that 1.6 has.

On 10/27/2010 10:12 AM, Mick Waters wrote:
> Hi Sunil,
>
> Will you be porting this to the latest RHEL 5 kernel?  We don't all have UEL.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mick.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ocfs2-users-bounces at oss.oracle.com [mailto:ocfs2-users-bounces at oss.oracle.com] On Behalf Of Sunil Mushran
> Sent: 27 October 2010 17:49
> To: Ronald Moesbergen
> Cc: ocfs2-users at oss.oracle.com
> Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] No space left on device error, older kernels?
>
> We don't backport features to older mainline kernels. We do it only for production kernels but that too within reason.
>
> This feature is available in OCFS2 1.6 with UEK (2.6.32 based kernel) on OL5.
>
> http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/linux/ubreakable-enterprise-kernel-linux-173350.html
>
> http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/
>
> On 10/27/2010 08:07 AM, Ronald Moesbergen wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Regarding the "no space" issue below: the fix is the discontig-bg
>> feature added in 2.6.35. Will this be backported to earlier kernels
>> (as a stable update, for example) or does everyone seeing this issue
>> have to upgrade to 2.6.35 or later? I'm asking because I'm seeing this
>> issue too, but am unable to upgrade to anything newer than 2.6.34.7
>> because of xen kernel incompatibilities.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ronald.
>>
>>> On 09/21/2010 04:52 PM, Alexander Barton wrote:
>>>> Hi Tao!
>>>>
>>>> Am 09.09.2010 um 02:29 schrieb Tao Ma:
>>>>
>>>>> btw, I may commit the ocfs2-tools patches recently, and you can try it with 2.6.35.
>>>> Ok, now we are seeing the problem again and want to try a new kernel
>>>> and the new OCFS2 tools - there aren't that much files left we could
>>>> delete instead ...
>>>>
>>>> So kernel 2.6.35.4 would be ok?
>>> It should work.
>>>> And OCFS2 tools from the GIT master branch? Or a special tag? There is no archive or release, right?
>> I>   have already committed the patches to ocfs2-tools.
>>> So you can get from
>>> git clone git://oss.oracle.com/git/ocfs2-tools.git
>>> I guess there is no release for it yet.
>>>> So are there any special steps we have to follow? Do some magic fsck.ocfs2 runs? Splashing chicken blood on moonlight? ...? Or is simply installing the new kernel and the new>tools enough and "everything" should be working fine again afterwards?
>>> No need for fsck.ocfs2.
>>> Just do tunefs.ocfs2 --fs-features=discontig-bg /dev/sdx(which means
>>> you have to umount the volume from all the nodes first) and mount it
>>> again and it should work. any problem, please let us know. Thanks.
>>>
>>> Make sure you see 'discontig-bg' in the output of following cmd.
>>> echo 'stats'|debugfs.ocfs2 /dev/sdx|grep Incompat
>>>
>>>> Thanks for your support!
>>> no problem.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Tao
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