[Linux-cluster] GFS2 on FC6

Kenji Wakamiya wkenji at labs.fujitsu.com
Tue Feb 6 12:00:21 UTC 2007


Brandon Lamb wrote:
> This might be bad netiquette to post on the GFS mailing list, but you
> might look at oracle's OCFS2. I was able to get it up and running in a
> single day, its in the latest 2.6.20 kernel and then you just need to
> download the 1.2.2 tools from their website.

A few years ago, I was interested also in OCFS2.  But my uses need
Posix locks, Posix ACLs, and quota.  For this reason, I chose GFS
necessarily.  Now I like GFS on the whole.

> It was much easier to get up and running. For that matter I was never
> able to get GFS working or compile after 6 days. I have yet to try
> since stable was updated.

Apart from that, I didn't know installation of OCFS2 is so easy.
Thanks for everything,

Kenji




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