[OSR-devel] New Preview RPMs for next Release Candidate of comoonics-bootimage

[Marc G. <gr...@at...>]

Hello *,
finally we got the first stage of the new version of the osr cluster suite in 
the preview channel. This will be the first release candidate for the next 
productive channel.

NOTE: Those packages are NOT YET production ready. And they might include bugs 
as they did not undergo the Q&A. So use them at your own risc.

2nd NOTE: Those packages were only tested with OSR<RHEL5> clusters based on 
GFS or NFS. OSR<SLES10/ocfs2>,OSR<Fedora/gfs2|nfs> and OSR<RHEL5/ocfs2> will 
be tested next. This means you shouldn't use those packages with ocfs2 as 
rootfilesystem.

As this is only a preview update I will sum up the most important changes not 
automated:

- Rewritten hardwaredetection: https://bugzilla.atix.de/show_bug.cgi?id=325
- Usability review: https://bugzilla.atix.de/show_bug.cgi?id=323
- Support for breakpoints in bootprocess
- Break shell will always continue the bootprocess when exited
- Bootparameters may be overwritten in Breakshell
- Rootfs Check with bootparameter rootfsck (use with care and up to now only 
with GFS)
- NFS OSR will not start scsi detection
- Preview support for OSR on fedora (NFS)
- Preview support for OSR<NFS4> without authentication
- Preview support for OSR<RHEL5 with localfs>
- Many small bugfixes
Patches from Gordan Bobic (all preview status):
- glusterfs support
- Software RAID with md support 
- diet patch (new option to mkinitrd <-l> to make initrd smaller)

Please let me know what you think

Thanks
Marc

P.S. May the root always be shared! ;-)

-- 
Gruss / Regards,

Marc Grimme
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