[gpfsug-discuss] GPFS 3.5 Announcement

[Barry Evans]

Also watch out for the hotfix requirement on Windows 2008 R2 SP1 (the faq says there isn't a requirment, but there is - check the forum for the link) - they may have updated the faq by now now.

> I will also add that if you download the latest vfs_gpfs from git it has patches to report disk sizes bases on quotas, in particular fileset quotas.

that sounds verrrrrryyy nice, have you tried it out?

Cheers,
Barry






On 25 Apr 2012, at 19:27, Jonathan Buzzard wrote:

> Arif Ali wrote:
>>  Hi all,
>> I have (with help from Barry) found that 3.5 also have .deb packages available.
>> Well, I delved in, and tried installing them on my laptop, to see if it would compile.
>> 3 things come from my experience so far
>> 1. The compilation detects my machine as debian, in-fact it is Ubuntu, so the testing in the configure needs to change such that it checks for lsb-release before the debian_version in /etc. But in the meantime "make LINUX_DISTRIBUTION=UBUNTU_LINUX Autoconfig" does the job, i.e after copying config/env.mcr.sample to config/env.mcr
>> 2. At the moment with 3.5.0-1, the compilation does not succeed on 11.10. Is there any documentation out there that shows which flavours of Ubuntu/Debian are in-fact supported. I will try it on an older karmic test machine that I have already, and see how far I get.
> 
> Yes the updated FAQ says that Debian 6 (aka squeeze) is the only supported version, so you are out of luck with Ubuntu.
> 
> The FAQ also says that 3.5.0-1 supports mounting DMAPI enabled file systems on Windows, and gives contradictory information on 3.40-13 being able to do the same.
> 
> Another gotya is that 3.5 only supports the TSM 6.3 client for backup, so if like us you have yet to upgrade your servers past 5.5.x you cannot upgrade :-(
> 
> I will also add that if you download the latest vfs_gpfs from git it has patches to report disk sizes bases on quotas, in particular fileset quotas.
> 
> 
> JAB.
> 
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