[Cluster-devel] New gfs2 mkfs in HEAD

[Robert Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>]

Hi,

I just wanted to let everybody know:  I just committed a new version of 
gfs2's mkfs code to
CVS HEAD that uses udev's libvolume_id library to figure out a 
pre-existing file system.
Because it uses libvolume_id, you'll need this library in order to 
compile mkfs.

The gfs and gfs2 code is included in version -094 of udev on kernel.org.
Future releases of FC6 and RHEL5 should come with this library installed 
in /usr/lib
but if you're like me, developing on an FC5 box, you might not have it.  
So here's one
way you can get it:

1. Point your web browser at:
    http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev-094.tar.bz2
2. Download it somewhere.
3. Untar it:  tar -xjf udev-094.tar.bz2
4. Compile with this command:
    make EXTRAS="extras/volume_id" install
(Right now, udev doesn't compile and install libvolume_id by default, 
but I'm told it will eventually).

Regards,

Bob Peterson
Red Hat Cluster Suite