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

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

Hello *,
I finished the last implementations and bugfixes of the (nearly) final release 
candidate of the new comoonics tools (Version 4.5 including 
comoonics-bootimage).
Here are the last relevant changes:

* Some bugfixes in hardware detection specially with udev renaming nics and 
therefore "deadlocking" udevd (timeout gets called)
* Bugfixes in powering up nics. They might be called multiple times (i.e. when 
using bridging and bonding and vlans at once ;-) )
* Verified ocfs2 with RHEL5 and ocfs2 with SLES10
* Updated the lite option in mkinitrd <gordans approch> to be more general and 
not necessarily need "lsmod".
* Implemented filters to globally remove files from initrd (Gordan's idea)
* Implemented an update feature in the initrd (see 
https://bugzilla.atix.de/show_bug.cgi?id=340). That's a cool one. Updating an 
initrd within seconds.
* Fixed bugs (338, 331, ..)

Some thoughts to sum up:
1. It is now possible to use the lite version of mkinitrd. It should reduce 
the size of the initrd by 50%.
Use -L if you want to include all loaded modules or if you need more modules 
use either -M <modulename> or specify 
in /etc/comoonics/comoonics-bootimage.cfg
2. The mkinitrd -U updates an existing initrd an therefore also speeds up the 
initrd building. With -A <kernelversion> and -D <kernelversion> even kernels 
can be exchanged in the same initrd.

So that's it.

Open issues before having a proper RC is:
Retest with SLES10(ocfs2/nfs) and test with FC10(nfs/gfs2).

That's it, let me know what you think and have fun.

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.

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

On Tuesday 10 February 2009 20:53:18 Marc Grimme wrote:
> 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
> http://www.atix.de/               http://www.open-sharedroot.org/
>
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Gruss / Regards,

Marc Grimme
http://www.atix.de/               http://www.open-sharedroot.org/