[Linux-cluster] Newbie Question

Lon Hohberger lhh at redhat.com
Thu Jun 28 18:41:05 UTC 2007


On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 12:43:41PM -0500, Mike Duncan wrote:
> I hope this is a good place for beginner questions.  If not, please let
> me know and I'll go away....
> 
> I am trying to construct my first cluster.  I have 6 PCs (P3s) and am
> trying to learn the basics.  I have MPI up and running so that the nodes
> will answer and they run a simple "hello world" program.
> 
> Here's my main question:  I'm running Fedora Core 6 on this cluster, and
> would like to implement GFS as each node has a huge data HDD--160G per
> node.  However I cannot find any information on the Net about
> implementing GFS on FC6.  I found some old info about FC4, but it was
> useless.  I see that RHEL has the functionality included.  Do I need to
> install RHEL?

No, you don't; the RHEL5 documentation for installing/configuring GFS
should apply to Fedora Core 6.

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Lon Hohberger - Software Engineer - Red Hat, Inc.




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