On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 04:07, Seth Mos wrote:
> At 11:26 24-6-2003 -0500, Austin Gonyou wrote:
> >I was curious as to the status of this possible effort.
>
> I am working on a installer but it will not use the 2.4.9 enterprise
> kernel
> as it originally did.
I see. Ok.
> >What parts would need to be stable before using in an enterprise
> >production environmet, etc? (i.e. XFS environment module would need
> to
> >be created so one could use a binary only kernel + xfs without
> patches)
> >Which XFS codebase could be used as the module?(1.2+?)
>
> There is no way to make XFS possible as a module without patching the
> kernel. Especially something as "old" as the 2.4.9 enterprise kernel.
I was thinking that, but I wasn't sure of the approach to this problem.
> What I am searching for is someone that would attempt fitting XFS 1.2
> (or
> 1.3pre) into the 2.4.9 enterprise kernel. it won't be pretty.
> You can fetch the Red Hat kernel from their ftp server.
> ftp://updates.redhat.com/enterprise/2.1ES/en/os/SRPMS/kernel-2.4.9-e.25.src.rpm
>
> For now I stick with the 2.4.20-18 kernel with XFS during and after
> installation.
We're currently running 2.4.18-27 XFS enabled kernel. I'm not having a
huge issue with all this, but the damn qlogic drivers we use keep
shitting the bed on us. I'm not 100% sure why just yet, but something's
afoot here. So, in an effort to have/get support for all pieces we're
using, I was looking at potentially using RHAS 2.1. At least, at some
level, we could know that this "configuration" *should* work. If it
doesn't then it expands our troubleshooting capabilities so each
organization RH/Dell/Oracle, can offer their aid as well.
> >I ask all this because it would be very nice for us to use this if we
> >could even possibly buy support or something to get all our server OS
> >parts supported, that would be nice.
>
> As soon as you recompile a kernel or install a significant third party
> library you will already void the support contract.
> Red Hat only supports plain vanilla RHEL ES installs and I fully
> understand
> since support would otherwise be a nightmare.
>From my understanding, RHAS recompiled kernels ,from their src rpm are
supported. I will have a phone call with someone about this soon, but I
had already contacted them about this.
> We bought the basic ES product for $350 only to find that it doesn't
> support the raid controller in the new server it is supposed to be
> installed on. Yay. Red Hat says that the machine is not listed in
> their
> hardware compatability list and as such will not do anything with the
> support call. To make it even sillier, the driver for the raid
> controller
> in question is in the rpm but not available during installer time...
> aaarrrgh.
Our bigger issue is the 2500/server/year support cost, plus NO XFS
support. Bah..screw that!
> Cheers
>
> --
> Seth
> It might just be your lucky day, if you only knew.
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Austin Gonyou <austin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Coremetrics, Inc.
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