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Hi Anthony, Not sure if you sent this to the list or not but I figured I'd cc it for the archives. > Marc, > > Can you post your steps for setting up the RedHat GFS? I'm am just starting > to look into the process, and would appreciate any assistance. In brief, the steps are: - download source RPMS (I got mine from ftp.redhat.com, they ARE NOT linked anywhere from the redhat web pages on GFS so you just have to dig in the source tree a bit). - You need to be running a redhat enterprise kernel or a derivative thereof.. we use Whitebox Enterprise Linux (http://www.whiteboxlinux.org) - the build process for the SRPMS requires a BUNCH of kernel rpms that you can later remove if you'd like.. the RPMS you need depend on the architecture you plan to build for. See this post to whitebox-users for some hints: http://beau.org/pipermail/whitebox-users/2004-July/002320.html - the standard GFS SRPM _REQUIRES_ kernel 2.4.21-15 which is available in SRPM form from the redhat ftp. There is a slightly more recent release available in there.. 2.4.21-15.0.3 or something like this. If you want to build against that or a newer kernel you will want to check out this site: http://www.hughesjr.com/ since there are some mods you can make to the GFS rpm (which he provides a download for) to work with the newer kernel versions. - if after building/installing the RPMS and rebooting (if necessary) to the appropriate kernel you get a slew of unresolved symbols in means that the redhat gfs modules were not compiled for your exact kernel. The part that tripped me up was that I ran an i686 smp kernel but didn't include those flags for the build of the GFS rpm.. I needed something like rpmbuild --target i686 --with smp and then things worked as expected. The build will fail if you do not have the redhat kernel RPMS installed matching your target build type since it looks specifically for the directories named with redhat's schema under /lib/modules/2.4.21-15ELxxx where xxx is whatever build option you choose.. such as smp, hugemem, etc. after I had the RPMS installed setting things up was just a matter of reading the documentation. Hope that helps -Marc Swanson- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed the changes on Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few weeks? Now, one more big change to announce. We are now OSTG- Open Source Technology Group. Come see the changes on the new OSTG site. www.ostg.com _______________________________________________ Opengfs-users mailing list Opengfs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opengfs-users