[Linux-cluster] gfs2-utils 3.1.5 Released

Andrew Price anprice at redhat.com
Tue Nov 13 11:57:34 UTC 2012


On 13/11/12 09:17, Fabio M. Di Nitto wrote:
> On 11/12/2012 9:37 PM, Andrew Price wrote:
>> The mount.gfs2 helper utility has been removed as it is no longer
>> required to mount gfs2 file systems. gfs2_tool and gfs2_quota have also
>> been removed. Users of gfs2_quota should now use the generic quota
>> utilities and users of gfs2_tool should now use tunegfs2, gfs2 mount
>> options and the generic dmsetup and chattr/lsattr tools.
>
> IIRC there is a specific minimum kernel version for mount.gfs2 to be
> obsoleted and quota tool version to obsolete gfs2_quota. Might be a good
> idea to document it, so that users won´t attempt random back-ports.

Yes, it looks like mount.gfs2 hasn't been required since kernel 2.6.36

Andy




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