[Cluster-devel] GFS2: Update main gfs2 doc

[Steven Whitehouse]

Hi,

On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 15:09 +0200, Fabio M. Di Nitto wrote:
> On 5/10/2012 2:11 PM, Steven Whitehouse wrote:
> >>From 49f30789fc33c4516fbe123f05ea4313866381d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho at redhat.com>
> > Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 11:45:31 +0100
> > Subject: [PATCH 1/2] GFS2: Update main gfs2 doc
> > 
> > Various items were a bit out of date, so this is a refresh to the
> > latest info.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho at redhat.com>
> > 
> > diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2.txt
> > index 4cda926..cc4f230 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2.txt
> > +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2.txt
> > @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
> >  Global File System
> >  ------------------
> >  
> > -http://sources.redhat.com/cluster/wiki/
> > +https://fedorahosted.org/cluster/wiki/HomePage
> >  
> >  GFS is a cluster file system. It allows a cluster of computers to
> >  simultaneously use a block device that is shared between them (with FC,
> > @@ -30,7 +30,8 @@ needed, simply:
> >  
> >  If you are using Fedora, you need to install the gfs2-utils package
> >  and, for lock_dlm, you will also need to install the cman package
> > -and write a cluster.conf as per the documentation.
> > +and write a cluster.conf as per the documentation. For F17 and above
> > +cman has been replaced by the dlm package.
> 
> ^^^ cman has been replaced by corosync 2.0 (or higher) in combination
> with votequorum provide (see votequorum.5).
> 
corosync was always a requirement though, it gets pulled in through the
deps

> gfs2 still requires dlm for it´s dependencies but it´s not a replacement.
> 
Well it is kind of, since thats where dlm_controld resides and that now
deals with all the recovery stuff now that gfs_controld is gone, so
maybe it could have been worded better, but it at least is correct in
terms of what needs to be installed package-wise,

Steve.

> Fabio
>