<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 6.5.7623.0"> <TITLE>patch 2.6 kernel without modules</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY>  Hi all, I want to use GFS for a webcluster with shared data through a iSCSI SAN. The cluster nodes are diskless and boot through PXE by downloading a kernel and rootfs that is stored in RAM. I have built a custom minimal Linux system with LFS (<A HREF="http://linuxfromscratch.org">http://linuxfromscratch.org</A>) to keep the image as small as possible (the smallest Fedora/RedHat I could get by stripping RPMs was still 650MB). I would like to work without kernel modules and therefore I would like to know whether it is possible to patch the 2.6 kernel to include GFS 'statically' (i.e. no kernel modules). As far as I cann tell the cluster-1.02.00 package I downloaded builds kernel modules. In addition I would like to know what minimal requirements I need to use GFS. The load balancing itself will be done on other machines with a different setup. Hence I would like to refrain from installing any of that functionality on the cluster nodes. From reading the docs I get the impression GFS needs a whole lot of clustering packages. Thanks! Jonathan </BODY> </HTML>