GFS on FC4 howto

[sommere]

I know several people have inquired about how to set up GFS on FC4. I have composed a howto which explains how to take a system running FC4 and get it to work with GFS.

It took me a while to find everything which needs to be installed, ports unblocked, etc, but the howto is actually pretty short, it almost fits on one screen. It only took me about an hour to take a system from no OS to joining a cluster.

check out: http://www.ethanet.com/FC4GFS/

send any questions to gfs@ethanet.com

[kiteboarder]

I did what was mentioned but the services won't start
Only ccsd will start but the other services fail.

CCSD logs the following to the /var/log/messages
ccsd[3047]: Unable to connect to cluster infrastructure after XX seconds.

The following is logged to the dmesg
GFS 2.6.11.8-20050601.152643.FC4.9 (built Jul 18 2005 10:42:11) installed
GFS: Trying to join cluster "lock_dlm", "clust:bigsharddisk"
DLM 2.6.11.5-20050601.152643.FC4.10 (built Jul 18 2005 10:34:38) installed
Lock_DLM (built Jul 18 2005 10:42:04) installed
lock_dlm: cannot get cman reference -107
lock_dlm: init_cluster error -107
GFS: can't mount proto = lock_dlm, table = clust:bigsharddisk, hostdata =

Can anybody help??

[RahulSundaram]

Originally Posted by sommere

I know several people have inquired about how to set up GFS on FC4. I have composed a howto which explains how to take a system running FC4 and get it to work with GFS.

It took me a while to find everything which needs to be installed, ports unblocked, etc, but the howto is actually pretty short, it almost fits on one screen. It only took me about an hour to take a system from no OS to joining a cluster.

check out: http://www.ethanet.com/FC4GFS/

send any questions to gfs@ethanet.com

Looks good enough to be a getting started guide. Would you take this further and contribute to Fedora Documentation Project

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/NewWriters

Rahul
Red Hat Inc

[SlowJet]

Hey sommere,

Where can /dev/volGroup/bigvolume be located?
Is it on one machine and used via the net from the other?
Can any of the OS be on it (and shared)?

This seems too easy.

SJ

[Jman]

Moved to How Tos.