Re: [OSR-devel] killall and init scripts

[Gordan B. <go...@bo...>]

Marc Grimme wrote:

>>>> I have GlusterFS OSR working and I'll be sending a patch when I
>>> have done a
>>>
>>>> bit more testing including rebuilding a fresh system from scratch
>>> to test
>>>
>>>> my notes/documentation which I'll also be submitting.
>>> Sounds great. I'll be happy to bring this upstream.
>> Thanks. Sorry it took this long (I first mentioned the idea some months
>> ago). There were some bugs in GlusterFS that made it too unstable for
>> production (for my use-cases at least), so I left it on hold until I was
>> happy with it in the standard environment.
>>
>> Some of the notable things that were required to get OSR working with it
>> were: - fuse needs /tmp to exist before it'll work. The error it returns is
>> entirely misleading, and this took a while to get to the bottom of. Until
>> now, OSR didn't include a /tmp directory. - RPM refused to work because it
>> is based on BerkeleyDB, which requires writable mmap support, which isn't
>> available in fuse. The solution for that was to convert the RPM DB to
>> SQLite.
 >
> That's interesting cause I always wandered if it is possible to change the db 
> underneath. We also have so issues with gfs and rpmdb<berkeleydb>. Can you 
> point out some online resources on how to do this?

I'll definitely include it in the docs when I've got it all ready. 
Hopefully by the end of the week. I just want to make sure that my 
results are repeatable first. :)

>>>> Either way, I copied the halt script across and added glusterfs to
>>> the list
>>>
>>>> of things to not kill (-x parameter), but this didn't appear to
>>> make any
>>>
>>>> difference. The man page for killall/killall5 on RHEL5 doesn't
>>> appear to
>>>
>>>> list the -x option (although I did find a reference to this
>>> parameter being
>>>
>>>> added in Debian in 2006). Is this known to work on RHEL/CentOS 5,
>>> or is
>>>
>>>> there a modified killall required for this distro?
>>> Normally this binary that does this killing is the rpm
>>> SysVinit-comoonics
>>> found at
>>>
>>> http://download.atix.de/yum/comoonics/redhat-el5/productive/x86_64/RPMS/.
>>>
>>> This provides a new killall found at /usr/comoonics/sbin. This is
>>> called by
>>> halt and accepts the -x as option.
>>> Let me know if this is enough information.
>> I'll double-check, but I'm almost certain that this package was installed.
>> Does the same package also include the modified halt init script?
 >
> No those are added by comoonics-bootimage-initscripts. These provide the 
> patches needed.

Thanks, I'll have another look at it and see what I've missed.

Gordan