[Linux-cluster] Re: Will there be some kind of update soon?

[Brandon Lamb]

On 1/30/07, Brandon Lamb <brandonlamb at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey I was just wondering if there will be any update or a page anytime
> soon with basically a
>
> Download this this and this for this kernel version to get GFS going.
>
> ?
>
> I have been beating my head on the wall for over a week on a FC6
> installation trying to download various versions of cluster,
> devicemapper, lvm2, openais, getting the latest from cvs and svn.
>
> Its been really confusing trying to figure out first what all is
> needed for getting GFS up and running, like needing a cvs copy of
> device-mapper and lvm2. so after finally trying to figure out how to
> get evyerhing I still cant get stuff to compile.
>
> I realize I am not including any logs or make errors but after
> downloading and attempting to follow the instructions from usage.txt
> verbatim and thigns just dont work i give up. I really want to try out
> GFS but today in one day I had ocfs2 up and running on 3 machines,
> which im not basing on redhat or anything but that is the difference.
>
> I dont know if im just incredibly stupid and missing obvious things or
> what. I have been browsing the mailing list archives and im not seeing
> a whole lot of others emailing with problems isntalling, so am I the
> only one trying this out on machine with a fresh OS install? Ahhhhhh!!
>
> I am partly frustrated because I dont know if it would be bad manners
> to send errors of everything to this list, because i dont want to seem
> like im bothering the devs.
>
> Also, can one of the devs maybe give an order that you have to isntall
> stuff. For example do i need the very latest of dm isntalled first,
> then openais, then this then that? because one thing seems to only
> compile if you have another.
>
> sorry for the really long post. ive been up past 2am every day for the
> last week+ trying to figure this out hehe

A-ha! I just came across CentOS. It looks like it comes with the GFS
stuff like redhat ES, I am downloading it and will try to run it on
that instead of trying to figure out this cvs source stuff. Cross your
fingers for me!