Hello! When is it planned ocfs2 1.6 will be available for RHEL? /Kristian
On 05/13/2011 03:13 AM, Kristian J?rg wrote:> Hello! > > When is it planned ocfs2 1.6 will be available for RHEL? > > /KristianNo plans. Only OL/UEK.
Fahrenfort, Keith (HP Shared Solutions Architect for Oracle)
2011-May-13 15:34 UTC
[Ocfs2-users] OCFS2 1.6 for RHEL?
Hi Sunil, can you clarify - I understood that OCFS2 1.6 on RHEL would be supported, as long as you use RHEL with UEK and an Oracle Support agreement - per MOS note 1253272.1? Thanks! Regards! Keith Fahrenfort Solutions Architect - HP-Oracle Competency Center Americas Shared Solutions Architecture (SSA) Hewlett-Packard Company 281 475 8632 / Tel keithf at hp.com / Email Reach the team at ssa at hp.com -----Original Message----- From: ocfs2-users-bounces at oss.oracle.com [mailto:ocfs2-users-bounces at oss.oracle.com] On Behalf Of Sunil Mushran Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 10:06 AM To: Kristian J?rg Cc: ocfs2-users at oss.oracle.com Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] OCFS2 1.6 for RHEL? On 05/13/2011 03:13 AM, Kristian J?rg wrote:> Hello! > > When is it planned ocfs2 1.6 will be available for RHEL? > > /KristianNo plans. Only OL/UEK. _______________________________________________ Ocfs2-users mailing list Ocfs2-users at oss.oracle.com http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs2-users
Support is a whole different ballgame. I am only talking about availability. And I interpreted that qs to be asking whether ocfs2 1.6 be available for the standard rhel kernels. And the answer is no. It will be available only for uek. On 05/13/2011 08:34 AM, Fahrenfort, Keith (HP Shared Solutions Architect for Oracle) wrote:> Hi Sunil, can you clarify - I understood that OCFS2 1.6 on RHEL would be supported, as long as you use RHEL with UEK and an Oracle Support agreement - per MOS note 1253272.1? > > Thanks! Regards! > > Keith Fahrenfort > Solutions Architect - HP-Oracle Competency Center > Americas Shared Solutions Architecture (SSA) > Hewlett-Packard Company > 281 475 8632 / Tel > keithf at hp.com / Email > Reach the team at ssa at hp.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: ocfs2-users-bounces at oss.oracle.com [mailto:ocfs2-users-bounces at oss.oracle.com] On Behalf Of Sunil Mushran > Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 10:06 AM > To: Kristian J?rg > Cc: ocfs2-users at oss.oracle.com > Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] OCFS2 1.6 for RHEL? > > On 05/13/2011 03:13 AM, Kristian J?rg wrote: >> Hello! >> >> When is it planned ocfs2 1.6 will be available for RHEL? >> >> /Kristian > No plans. Only OL/UEK. > > _______________________________________________ > Ocfs2-users mailing list > Ocfs2-users at oss.oracle.com > http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs2-users
We are using CentOS (based on RHEL5). So this basically means we are stuck with ocfs2 1.4 forever when it comes to official releases? But I guess when you release the source code for 1.6 I could try and compile it myself for CentOS? 1.6 is still GPL right? We have been testing ocfs2 since we have been having huge problems with GFS with the kind of filesystems we have (lots and lots of small files and mostly read access). Ocfs2 seems to solve all these performance problems and we had high hopes for it. However the news that 1.6 and forward will not be available for RHEL/CentOS is bad news. I do hope you will reconsider. A big user base is the best way to make successful products IMHO. /Kristian Sunil Mushran skrev 2011-05-13 18:46:> Support is a whole different ballgame. I am only talking > about availability. And I interpreted that qs to be asking > whether ocfs2 1.6 be available for the standard rhel kernels. > And the answer is no. It will be available only for uek. > > On 05/13/2011 08:34 AM, Fahrenfort, Keith (HP Shared Solutions > Architect for Oracle) wrote: >> Hi Sunil, can you clarify - I understood that OCFS2 1.6 on RHEL would >> be supported, as long as you use RHEL with UEK and an Oracle Support >> agreement - per MOS note 1253272.1? >> >> Thanks! Regards! >> >> Keith Fahrenfort >> Solutions Architect - HP-Oracle Competency Center >> Americas Shared Solutions Architecture (SSA) >> Hewlett-Packard Company >> 281 475 8632 / Tel >> keithf at hp.com / Email >> Reach the team at ssa at hp.com >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: ocfs2-users-bounces at oss.oracle.com >> [mailto:ocfs2-users-bounces at oss.oracle.com] On Behalf Of Sunil Mushran >> Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 10:06 AM >> To: Kristian J?rg >> Cc: ocfs2-users at oss.oracle.com >> Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] OCFS2 1.6 for RHEL? >> >> On 05/13/2011 03:13 AM, Kristian J?rg wrote: >>> Hello! >>> >>> When is it planned ocfs2 1.6 will be available for RHEL? >>> >>> /Kristian >> No plans. Only OL/UEK. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Ocfs2-users mailing list >> Ocfs2-users at oss.oracle.com >> http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs2-users >
If big user base is the best way... then we have no worries because ocfs2 1.6 is available on fedora, opensuse, ubuntu and debian. On 05/13/2011 12:53 PM, Kristian J?rg wrote:> We are using CentOS (based on RHEL5). So this basically means we are stuck with ocfs2 1.4 forever when it comes to official releases? > But I guess when you release the source code for 1.6 I could try and compile it myself for CentOS? 1.6 is still GPL right? > > We have been testing ocfs2 since we have been having huge problems with GFS with the kind of filesystems we have (lots and lots of small files and mostly read access). Ocfs2 seems to solve all these performance problems and we had high hopes for it. However the news that 1.6 and forward will not be available for RHEL/CentOS is bad news. I do hope you will reconsider. A big user base is the best way to make successful products IMHO. > > /Kristian > > > Sunil Mushran skrev 2011-05-13 18:46: >> Support is a whole different ballgame. I am only talking >> about availability. And I interpreted that qs to be asking >> whether ocfs2 1.6 be available for the standard rhel kernels. >> And the answer is no. It will be available only for uek. >> >> On 05/13/2011 08:34 AM, Fahrenfort, Keith (HP Shared Solutions Architect for Oracle) wrote: >>> Hi Sunil, can you clarify - I understood that OCFS2 1.6 on RHEL would be supported, as long as you use RHEL with UEK and an Oracle Support agreement - per MOS note 1253272.1? >>> >>> Thanks! Regards! >>> >>> Keith Fahrenfort >>> Solutions Architect - HP-Oracle Competency Center >>> Americas Shared Solutions Architecture (SSA) >>> Hewlett-Packard Company >>> 281 475 8632 / Tel >>> keithf at hp.com / Email >>> Reach the team at ssa at hp.com >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: ocfs2-users-bounces at oss.oracle.com [mailto:ocfs2-users-bounces at oss.oracle.com] On Behalf Of Sunil Mushran >>> Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 10:06 AM >>> To: Kristian J?rg >>> Cc: ocfs2-users at oss.oracle.com >>> Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] OCFS2 1.6 for RHEL? >>> >>> On 05/13/2011 03:13 AM, Kristian J?rg wrote: >>>> Hello! >>>> >>>> When is it planned ocfs2 1.6 will be available for RHEL? >>>> >>>> /Kristian >>> No plans. Only OL/UEK. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Ocfs2-users mailing list >>> Ocfs2-users at oss.oracle.com >>> http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs2-users >> > >
I think the UEK will work on Centos as well. Thanks, Herbert. On May 13, 2011, at 12:53 PM, Kristian J?rg <krjg at devo.se> wrote:> We are using CentOS (based on RHEL5). So this basically means we are > stuck with ocfs2 1.4 forever when it comes to official releases? > But I guess when you release the source code for 1.6 I could try and > compile it myself for CentOS? 1.6 is still GPL right? > > We have been testing ocfs2 since we have been having huge problems with > GFS with the kind of filesystems we have (lots and lots of small files > and mostly read access). Ocfs2 seems to solve all these performance > problems and we had high hopes for it. However the news that 1.6 and > forward will not be available for RHEL/CentOS is bad news. I do hope you > will reconsider. A big user base is the best way to make successful > products IMHO. > > /Kristian > > > Sunil Mushran skrev 2011-05-13 18:46: >> Support is a whole different ballgame. I am only talking >> about availability. And I interpreted that qs to be asking >> whether ocfs2 1.6 be available for the standard rhel kernels. >> And the answer is no. It will be available only for uek. >> >> On 05/13/2011 08:34 AM, Fahrenfort, Keith (HP Shared Solutions >> Architect for Oracle) wrote: >>> Hi Sunil, can you clarify - I understood that OCFS2 1.6 on RHEL would >>> be supported, as long as you use RHEL with UEK and an Oracle Support >>> agreement - per MOS note 1253272.1? >>> >>> Thanks! Regards! >>> >>> Keith Fahrenfort >>> Solutions Architect - HP-Oracle Competency Center >>> Americas Shared Solutions Architecture (SSA) >>> Hewlett-Packard Company >>> 281 475 8632 / Tel >>> keithf at hp.com / Email >>> Reach the team at ssa at hp.com >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: ocfs2-users-bounces at oss.oracle.com >>> [mailto:ocfs2-users-bounces at oss.oracle.com] On Behalf Of Sunil Mushran >>> Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 10:06 AM >>> To: Kristian J?rg >>> Cc: ocfs2-users at oss.oracle.com >>> Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] OCFS2 1.6 for RHEL? >>> >>> On 05/13/2011 03:13 AM, Kristian J?rg wrote: >>>> Hello! >>>> >>>> When is it planned ocfs2 1.6 will be available for RHEL? >>>> >>>> /Kristian >>> No plans. Only OL/UEK. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Ocfs2-users mailing list >>> Ocfs2-users at oss.oracle.com >>> http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs2-users >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ocfs2-users mailing list > Ocfs2-users at oss.oracle.com > http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs2-users
* Joel Becker wrote:> The latest ocfs2 is always in mainline. Any distro building a > recent kernel an including ocfs2 will have it. As Sunil says, this > includes Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, and OpenSuSE. Whether ocfs2 is enabled > in the CentOS kernel is up to CentOS.Linux 2.6.39-rc7 has version 1.5.0 in Linus'es tree: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=fs/ocfs2/ver.c;h=e2488f4128a20f563459ba936cf263160e7350b2;hb=693d92a1bbc9e42681c42ed190bd42b636ca876f>From what I can tell from the changelog, you use the upstream-linusbranch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlbec/ocfs2 to sync with mainline, which also carries version 1.5.0. However, the latest version seems to be 1.6.3, available in the "unbreakable linux kernel" tree: http://oss.oracle.com/git/?p=linux-2.6-unbreakable.git;a=blob;f=fs/ocfs2/ver.c;h=8da71cb480f9cdd4cb0ff67f70a9b863f62b9a8b;hb=HEAD It was bumped in september last year... [~/linux-2.6-unbreakable]$ git log fs/ocfs2/ver.c commit c15e040971a341ca7e62448eac77385f91f6702f Author: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran at oracle.com> Date: Tue Sep 14 14:02:49 2010 -0700 ocfs2: Ups the version from 1.6.2 to 1.6.3 ... It's a bit confusing that mainline ver.c was last updated in 2007, at the same time there are ocfs2 patches continuously accepted in mainline, and the unbreakable kernel is at 1.6.3... is ver.c simply forgotten or are there other differences between the trees?