Thanks Brett.
I tried the clvm package and found it still requires the RHCS stuff, ARGH!!! It seems I must either study the RHCS stuff or compile a clvm package that use corosync/openais. I feel depressed. Rgds, Michael On 2010/8/4 下午 04:16, Brett Delle Grazie wrote: > Hi Mike, > > As others pointed out F13 has all the bits you need - it depends if this > is meant to be a production system or not (in fairness Fedora is not > recommended for production) > > Personally I prefer the ease of administration that comes with Debian > based environments but many of my clients use RedHat based derivatives. > > It all depends upon what you need and what you're familiar with. > > Good luck, > > Best Regards, > > Brett > > On Wed, 2010-08-04 at 09:05 +0800, Michael Fung wrote: >> Thanks to all who helped give hints. >> >> >> I switched to Debian Squeeze. >> >> I don't want to spend time to study RHCS of RHEL 5 if Pacemaker/Corosync >> is the future. Life is short. >> >> >> Rgds, >> Michael >> >> >> On 2010/8/3 下午 03:29, Brett Delle Grazie wrote: >>> Hi Mike, >>> >>> In RHEL 5.x and CentOS 5.x you must use CMAN and the RedHat Cluster >>> Suite (RHCS) if you are going to used clustered LVM. >>> >>> This is because clvmd currently uses the CMAN interface to the cluster. >>> In later versions, RedHat is moving towards Corosync / OpenAIS / >>> (Pacemaker | RgManager) solution but this will take a long time. >>> >>> Christine Caufield (from RedHat) wrote an excellent document describing >>> the change process here: >>> http://people.redhat.com/ccaulfie/docs/Whither%20cman.pdf >>> >>> I guess your options are: >>> (a) Switch to RHCS based cluster, at least for those nodes with >>> clustered LVM requirements (and GFS, GFS2 etc) >>> (b) Switch to RHEL 6.x Beta >>> (c) Try recompiling RHEL 6.x Beta packages - no guarantees here but it >>> should be possible, maybe. >>> (d) Try compiling current source of lvm2-cluster packages from Fedora or >>> Rawhide as they can use current versions of OpenAIS. The RHEL 5.x >>> versions of lvm2-cluster are fixed at using CMAN interface, not OpenAIS >>> (e) Switch to Debian based distro - Lenny is production ready and has >>> CLVM / Pacemaker / Corosync in backports ;) >>> (f) Something someone else on the list with more experience comes up >>> with :) >>> >> >> ______________________________________________________________________ >> This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. >> For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email >> ______________________________________________________________________ > _______________________________________________ Pacemaker mailing list: Pacemaker@oss.clusterlabs.org http://oss.clusterlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/pacemaker Project Home: http://www.clusterlabs.org Getting started: http://www.clusterlabs.org/doc/Cluster_from_Scratch.pdf Bugs: http://developerbugs.linux-foundation.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Pacemaker
