firewire cluster driver config
275244Jan 30 2003 — edited Jul 22 2003I followed the following instructions in the readme for the firewire patch but I seem to have a problem at the driver level. Only one node can see /dev/sda at a time. I noticed that the load options for sbp2 is exclusive=yes. That does not sound correct. How do I alter that? I found a number of errors in the log including... "ieee1394 selfid completion called outside of bus reset" etc.
README
These are EXPERIMENTAL kernels for playing with firewire shared disk clustering. To use on Red Hat Advanced Server 2.1: 1) Download a tarball, either the UP or the SMP kernel. 2) Untar in / 3) Edit grub.conf to make a boot entry for it. Example: title Experiemental Firewire Test Kernel (2.4.20rc2) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinux-2.4.20-rc2-orafw ro root=/dev/hda2 Note there isn't an initrd entry. The SMP kernel image filename is vmlinux-2.4.20-rc2-orafw-smp. 4) Get either ocfs-1.0-up.o or ocfs-1.0-smp.o and drop it in /lib/modules/2.4.20-rc2-orafw/kernel/fs/ for UP or /lib/modules/2.4.20-rc2-orafw-smp/kernel/fs/ for SMP, respectively. Rename the file to simply ocfs.o. 5) Get the ocfs-tools tarball and untar it in /. 6) You need to modprobe ohci1394, sd_mod, and sbp2 modules. If you look in dmesg, it will say what partitions it detected on the firewire disk. The rest is the same as using RAC on any other disk subsystem. Manish Singh