[Debian-ha-maintainers] What is the status of gfs2-tools?

Nils Cant nils.cant at kangaroot.net
Wed Apr 27 14:22:26 UTC 2011


Hello,

I've been having severe problems trying to get gfs2 (gfs2-tools 
3.0.12.2) to work, hence my question:
Is this in fact a working, stable, production-worthy package?

The apt description says that the gfs2 kernel modules are highly 
experimental, however it seems gfs has been part of Debian since at 
least Lenny.

The usage.txt file that comes with the package suggest using a very 
basic cluster.conf configuration, but that doesn't work at all for me.
I've tried various different combinations, even using ccs_tool to build 
my cluster.conf, but to no avail.

I've had daemons get stuck (only killable with -9), umounts fail at 
reboots, nodes that start fencing each other when joining the cluster, 
etc, cman init script failing at both starting or stopping, etc.

So am I doing something horribly wrong, or should I just give up and 
switch to RH/CentOS? :D

Thanks in advance,

Nils



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