From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Fabio M. Di Nitto Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 15:18:22 +0200 Subject: [Cluster-devel] GFS2: Update main gfs2 doc In-Reply-To: <1336655591.2704.17.camel@menhir> References: <1336651919.2704.13.camel@menhir> <4FABBDFD.8070308@redhat.com> <1336655591.2704.17.camel@menhir> Message-ID: <4FABC01E.4030205@redhat.com> List-Id: To: cluster-devel.redhat.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 5/10/2012 3:13 PM, Steven Whitehouse wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 15:09 +0200, Fabio M. Di Nitto wrote: >> On 5/10/2012 2:11 PM, Steven Whitehouse wrote: >>> >From 49f30789fc33c4516fbe123f05ea4313866381d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 >>> From: Steven Whitehouse >>> Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 11:45:31 +0100 >>> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] GFS2: Update main gfs2 doc >>> >>> Various items were a bit out of date, so this is a refresh to the >>> latest info. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse >>> >>> diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2.txt >>> index 4cda926..cc4f230 100644 >>> --- a/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2.txt >>> +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2.txt >>> @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ >>> Global File System >>> ------------------ >>> >>> -http://sources.redhat.com/cluster/wiki/ >>> +https://fedorahosted.org/cluster/wiki/HomePage >>> >>> GFS is a cluster file system. It allows a cluster of computers to >>> simultaneously use a block device that is shared between them (with FC, >>> @@ -30,7 +30,8 @@ needed, simply: >>> >>> If you are using Fedora, you need to install the gfs2-utils package >>> and, for lock_dlm, you will also need to install the cman package >>> -and write a cluster.conf as per the documentation. >>> +and write a cluster.conf as per the documentation. For F17 and above >>> +cman has been replaced by the dlm package. >> >> ^^^ cman has been replaced by corosync 2.0 (or higher) in combination >> with votequorum provide (see votequorum.5). >> > corosync was always a requirement though, it gets pulled in through the > deps No disagreement on the dependency here, but cman is not replaced by dlm in terms of functionality, that would be incorrect. > >> gfs2 still requires dlm for it?s dependencies but it?s not a replacement. >> > Well it is kind of, since thats where dlm_controld resides and that now > deals with all the recovery stuff now that gfs_controld is gone, so > maybe it could have been worded better, but it at least is correct in > terms of what needs to be installed package-wise, Right, package wise you are right, you install dlm and you get corosync indirectly. I was only pointing out the functionality chain here vs package chain. It might be better to express both in a doc since the landscape has changed substantially. Fabio