Re: [SSI-devel] Release notes, etc. for OpenSSI 1.9.0

[John B. <joh...@hp...>]

Brian J. Watson wrote:
> Jiann-Ming Su wrote:
> 
>> Is LVM supported?
> 
> 
> I don't think it has been tested, but it might work.
> 
> If it does, don't expect that a change to the volumes from one node 
> would be visible from another node that has old volume information 
> cached in memory. This feature would only be provided by a Cluster LVM.
> 
>> What filesystems are supported?  Or, should I stick
>> with ext3?
> 
> 
> The only one that has been tested is ext3. If you want to try another, 
> add an entry to /cluster/lib/cfstab that says "<filesystem_name>   cfs". 
> This tells the mount command to automatically use CFS whenever a 
> filesystem of that type is mounted.
> 
> Please share the results if you test any other filesystems.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Brian

Well, I don't know about doing failover or running as root with it, but 
xfs is working cfs as a non-root filesystem on 1.9.

John