-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Sunil Mushran [01.03.2011 17:48]:
> Note that EL5 is _not_ 2.6.18. That version was merely the starting > point. The kernel versions listed in mkfs manpage refer to pure > unadulterated mainline kernel versions. My colleage had a complete run of up2date last Friday and now has a kernel 2.6.18-3xx. Before, he had 2.6.18-1xx. He's running a RAC on his nodes. > If the kernel module is 1.4, then the user will be limited to the feature > set listed in the 1.4 docs. That the tools are 1.6 is incidental. To get > all the latest features, both the tools and the fs need to be the latest > version. OK, thanks (and for the rest of the info, too). So, when the new JBODs arrive, he will create a fs and query the features with tunefs.ocfs2, so that we know which features are really supported. >> My kernel (2.6.32) does show up, but the version of my kernel module >> (1.5) does not. My tools are version 1.4. So I should not be able to use >> any feature that he can't. But this is not the case, some attribute that >> my mkfs.ocfs2 introduced to the filesystem was the reason that he could >> not mount it. > > In mainline, the fs version does not matter. It is the version of the > kernel that dictates the version of the fs. We have not figured out > how to automatically populate the fs version with the kernel version. > modinfo maybe a better place to provide this info. But the reality is > that this is just an interim problem. If we add the list of supported > features in modinfo, the new module will be in users hands around > the same time that all users will be on the new version. Still something > for us to chew on. Oh, my. My modinfo identifies OCFS2 as Version 1.5, and I do not see this version on any manpage... I love it. Again, thanks for the info! Regards Werner -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk1uN/4ACgkQk33Krq8b42OVBgCfcTgoUjut3Sd5ltaqex3zYqmL MTkAn2WD/oUDMBRv07TBdsEf9koLIqiH =dmzB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Ocfs2-users mailing list Ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs2-users