Thank you so much. I used the svn pull and 'prepare' was the magic word.
Compiled ok and working. I'm currently copying a great deal of stuff to a 
single disk, single server.
I didn't see anything in the documentation about adding to the storage pool. I 
guess that the config file has to be updated and distributed to all the 
servers, old and new, with the old servers being restarted.
I am wondering whether the data is then redistributed across the greater pool.
I am interested also in the redundancy, which I read was controllable on a file 
by file basis with attributes.
Plenty to explore, thank you.
David.

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---- Becky Ligon wrote ----

>Also, is you pull from the SVN repository, you must issue ./prepare before 
>trying to configure.
>
>Becky
>
>
>On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 9:47 AM, Mike Marshall <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>These packages (I'm looking at them from an rpm package manager
>perspective) will probably be enough to enable you to build a
>working configure:
>
>$ rpm -qa | grep m4
>m4-1.4.17-8.fc23.x86_64
>$ rpm -qa | grep autoconf
>autoconf-2.69-21.fc23.noarch
>$ rpm -qa | grep automake
>automake-1.15-4.fc23.noarch
>$ rpm -qa | grep libtool
>libtool-ltdl-2.4.6-8.fc23.x86_64
>
>When I run configure on a new machine, sometimes configure fails
>for lack of some package or other... if that happens to you anywhere
>along the path of running configure for Orangefs, just try to figure out
>how to "yum install" (or whatever package manager your Linux uses)
>the missing part and run configure again... The configure script
>will give you helpful hints as to what dependency caused it to
>fail. If you didn't configure your Linux instance as a
>"development platform" (or something similar) you might find that you
>have to install several things, like flex or bison, to get configure to run
>all the way through...
>
>The out-of-tree kernel module needs to work with its matching
>userspace part (don't mix 2.9.3 kernel module with 2.9.4 Orangefs
>userspace), but the upstream version of the kernel module will
>probably work with 2.9.3 and beyond, certainly with 2.9.4 and
>beyond...
>
>Orangefs is real easy to compile, configure and turn on/off, especially
>after you have done it a couple of times, good luck!
>
>-Mike
>
>
>
>On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 8:27 AM, Boyd Wilson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> We are working to release 2.9.5 (2.9.4 was a release we did in conjunction
>> with EMC and the 2TIERS project, so was not a fully tested public release).
>> We are getting extremely close to 2.9.5, so you can grab a copy of trunk out
>> of svn and it should have what you need.
>>
>> -b
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 2:19 AM David Humphreys
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> I have become aware of orangefs only as a result of its integration with
>>> the latest kernel release.
>>> I have been tracking ceph for a long time, but have not found it to be
>>> very user friendly: difficult to manage and difficult to make work in a
>>> robust way.
>>> Orangefs seems to provide some similar functionality, and my initial
>>> experiments yesterday seemed to confirm usability.
>>> The problem that I find is that the latest release (2.9.3) does not seem
>>> to contain kernel module code that will build with current kernels (my
>>> attempts failed, and references are made to 2.6.x series, and stuff has
>>> changed, I think, at 4.0).
>>> This shouldn't matter with 4.6, because orangefs is included by Linus.
>>> However when trying to mount an orangefs share the mount command hangs, and
>>> dmesg shows that the kernel is complaining that userspace declares version
>>> 20903,  but 20904 is required.
>>> (those numbers from memory of yesterday, and not on the screen in front of
>>> me now, but I'm sure that I have not misremembered).
>>> It looks like we might need a 2.9.4 release? I tried compiling the svn
>>> version, but couldn't overcome the lack of an 'autogen.sh' to do the right
>>> autotools suff to make a working 'configure'.
>>> I hope someone can help me put the 4.6 kernel orangefs to the test.
>>> Thank you in anticipation.
>>> David
>>>
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