State of GFS, OCFS2, Clustering, iSCSI, etc. in Fedora

[Fabio M. Di Nitto]

Hi,

On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 10:48 +0100, Milan Broz wrote:
> Dennis J. wrote:
> > On 01/08/2009 03:36 PM, Dan Horák wrote:
> >> David Huff píše v St 07. 01. 2009 v 10:34 -0500:
> > [SNIP]
> >> The Server SIG is the right place for these technologies, but we are in
> >> need of input from the "real world" about current deficiencies,
> >> problems, success stories etc.
> 
> For questions about supporting the clustering technologies in Fedora better ask
> on linux-cluster list (see https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster)
> 
> Milan
> 
> > 
> > That's how I ran into the problems I mentioned. In the near future I will 
> > have to setup approx. 30TB of storage that needs to be available for 5-10 
> > servers. The problem is that OCFS2 seems to be just plain broken, the web 
> > configuration tool described in the RHEL 5 manual for GFS is no longer 
> > present in Fedora and the cluster configuration tool doesn't work because 
> > it tries to call command line tools in the wrong locations.
> > 
> > What I'm wondering is that if fedora is the basis for RHEL then what are 
> > the plans for RHEL 6 regarding these technologies. AFAIK fedora 11 will 
> > form the basis for that but right now GFS and/or clustering in general 
> > seems to suffer from bit-rot.
> > 
> > I'm just surprised that GFS is a cornerstone of RHEL 5 but now seems to be 
> > basically unmaintained or is the RHEL team maintaining forked versions of 
> > these tools?

I also subscribed to this list on Milan suggestion. I'll try to reply
asap to your query.

Generally we prefer to discuss everything on upstream mailing list.

Fabio