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

[Antonis Kopsaftis]

Hello,

I search for info about the unbreakable kernel, and by the info that i
found i came up to
this conclusions:
1. To use unbreakable kernel you have to upgrade your distro to oracle
linux first. This
upgrade is only available for Redhat linux and not the free branches(px
centos).
2. To upgrade to oracle linux you have to BUY a support contract.

So for me, who i use Scientific Linux , to keep on using OCFS , the
unbreakable kernel is not a solution, as i cannot
upgrade easily and i have to reinstall everything.

The only solutions that i can came up, (without reinstalling my
production servers) are
1. Switch to another clustered filesystem...:-(
2. Wait for SL6 and see if there is an easy way to upgrade from SL5 to 6.

Finally i would like to say that i dont judge for your decision on
dropping support for redhat & redhat-likes 5.x distros, as its true
that the running kernel of this distros is old.
But to be fair, there's not any info on the official site
http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/ about this decision. Not even in
the "top reported session" or the FAQ of the site....

Regards,
Kopsaftis Antonis

On 28/10/2010 11:45 πμ, Joel Becker wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 12:09:59AM +0300, Antonis Kopsaftis wrote:
>> Even if 2.6.18 is a too old kernel, its then kernel thats its been used
>> by the current production running
>> versions (5.x) of redhat enterprise distros (and all his branches:
>> centos, SL , ...).
> 	You can easily get the Unbreakable kernel on those distros.  We
> understand your concern, as there are a lot of people running into this
> issue, but we feel that running the Unbreakable kernel is far less risky
> than backporting features of this size.
> 	If it was a simple fix, we wouldn't be having this conversation.
> ;-)
>
> Joel
>