Re: [SSI-users] Failed to install OpenSSI kernel rpm

[Chirag K. <chi...@hp...>]

On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 06:12:21PM +0100, Rui Vale wrote:
| | Rui, if you could write a small README, for the steps you've taken to
| | compile a `third party' driver, then it could be included in the docs
| | of OpenSSI (probably, in the devel docs). What do you think of that,
|   I definitely could!=20

That would be great!

| | 1. spurious message
| | -------------------
<snip>
|   Didn't show up with the "standalone" kernel.

Oh! Could you file a bug on the sourceforge page? Somebody could look
at it. Thanks for the report.

| | 2. error message on 2nd node
| | ----------------------------
| | No idea about this.
|   I'll dig into it a little further. Anyway, it doesn't seem to have=20
| much impact.

Thanks! If you could also file a bug, it would be great!

|   What's PBS? anything to do with www.pbs.org?

PBS is at www.openpbs.org

|   Anyway, if I would go and change the hostname on /etc/nodename (1st=20
| node) to something else, would it be okay?

That should be okay. During the bootup, the hostname gets set using:
hostname `cat /etc/nodename`. You would want to run that, if you
change the hostname, and if you don't want to reboot the cluster.

| | 4. I have a NVIDIA binary rpm compiled against openssi that=20
| | **apparently** works
| | ---------------------------------------------------------------------
|   Gave up on this. A detailled description of the steps required to=20
| build it from source will do the job anyway.

That should do.

| 5. CFS
| I don't get it! "CFS will automatically be stacked..."

David would be the best person to answer this, but let me try. The
way, CFS works, is, it `stacks' itself on top of ext2/ext3. ext2/ext3
are physical filesystem, which talk to the underlying disk. CFS would
not talk to the disk. It would have hooks into ext2/ext3, and talk to
those. CFS would provide NFS-like layer on top of ext2/ext3. When you
mount ext2/ext3 filesystem, CFS would automatically get stacked on top
of ext2/ext3 and it would be visible across the cluster.

| /dev/hda3 remains a mistery as to how I should make use of it...

Is this /dev/hda3 on the second machine, you are worried about? Once
drbd is stable in SSI, you would be able to use it.

--=20
Chirag Kantharia, chi...@hp...