Overview

The following table gives an overview of the open-sharedroot support for major OS releases:

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• s: fully supported
• t: tested
• T: testers needed
• d: in development
• D: developers needed
• ?: not decided or not clear jet
• --: not defined. Will most likely not be implemented

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[RHEL4] Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 is fully supported for open-sharedroot configurations.

Shared Root Filesystems

RHEL4 can be used together with GFS and NFS to create shared root configurations.

Storage Failover

Qlogic native failover driver and device mapper multipath can be used to build redundant paths for shared storage access.

Storage Technology

RHEL4 based open-sharedroot cluster can be used together with FC-SAN, iSCSI-SAN, NFS and DRBD to access shared storage devices.

Installation

RHEL4 open-sharedroot cluster can be installed manually and the help of ATIX's modified version of Red Hat's Anaconda or com.oonics Enterprise Copy. Also, automated installation with kickstart configurations is supported.

Tasks

• Verify open-sharedroot configuration with RHEL4.7

Next Release

• Support for RHEL4.7

Tested binary compatible distributions

• CentOS4

[RHEL5] Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is fully supported for open-sharedroot configurations.

Shared Root Filesystems

RHEL5 can be used together with GFS, NFS and OCFS2 to create shared root configurations. GFS2 will be added soon.

Storage Failover

Qlogic native failover driver and device mapper multipath can be used to build redundant paths for shared storage access.

Storage Technology

RHEL5 based open-sharedroot cluster can be used together with FC-SAN, iSCSI-SAN, NFS and DRBD to access shared storage devices.

Installation

RHEL5 open-sharedroot cluster can be installed manually and with the help of ATIX's modified version of Red Hat's Anaconda or Comoonics Enterprise Copy. Also, automated installation with kickstart configurations is supported.

Tasks

• Integrate GFS2 as shared root filesystem.
• Verify open-sharedroot with RHEL5.2
• Integrate OCFS2 into Comoonics Enterprise Copy
• Integrate OCFS2 into Anaconda installation.

Next Release

• Support for RHEL5.2 and OCFS2

Tested binary compatible distributions

• CentOS5
• Scientific Linux 5
• Oracle Enterprise Linux 5

[FedoraCore]

Open-sharedroot support for FedoraCore is in development state. The following configurations will be supported:

Shared Root Filesystems

FedoraCore can be used together with GFS2, OCFS2 and NFS to create shared root configurations.

Storage Failover

Device mapper multipath can be used to build redundant paths for shared storage access.

Storage Technology

FedoraCore based open-sharedroot cluster can be used together with FC-SAN, iSCSI-SAN, NFS and DRBD to access shared storage devices.

Installation

FedoraCore open-sharedroot cluster can be installed manually, with ATIX's modified version of Red Hat's Anaconda or Comoonics Enterprise Copy

Tasks

• integrate GFS2 as shared root filesystem.
• create listfiles for Fedora9 packages.
• implement FedoraCore initrd dependencies.
• integrate Anaconda modifications into FedoraCore Anaconda.
• Bring everything upstream and integrate the osr-rpms into FedoraCore.

[OpenSuSE]

Open-sharedroot support for OpenSuSE is in development state. The following configurations will be supported:

Shared Root Filesystems

OpenSuSE can be used together with OCFS2 and NFS to create shared root configurations.

Storage Failover

Device mapper multipath can be used to build redundant paths for shared storage access.

Storage Technology

OpenSuSE based open-sharedroot cluster can be used together with FC-SAN, iSCSI-SAN, NFS and DRBD to access shared storage devices.

Installation

FedoraCore open-sharedroot cluster can be installed manually, with ATIX's modified version of Novell's YaST2 or Comoonics Enterprise Copy

Tasks

• create listfiles for OpenSuSE packages.
• implement OpenSuSE initrd dependencies.
• Create a modified version of YaST2 to autoinstall OSR-Cluster.
• Bring everything upstream and integrate the osr-rpms into OpenSuSE.

[SLES10] SuSe Linux Enterprise Server 10

Open-sharedroot support for SuSe Linux Enterprise Server 10 (SLES10) is in development state. The following configurations will be supported:

Shared Root Filesystems

SLES10 can be used together with NFS and OCFS2 to create shared root configurations.

Storage Failover

Qlogic native failover driver and device mapper multipath can be used to build redundant paths for shared storage access.

Storage Technology

SLES10 based open-sharedroot cluster can be used together with FC-SAN, iSCSI-SAN, NFS and DRBD to access shared storage devices.

Installation

SLES10 open-sharedroot cluster can be installed manually or with Comoonics Enterprise Copy.

Tasks

• create listfiles for SLES10 packages.
• implement SLES10 initrd dependencies.
• Integrate OCFS2 into Comoonics Enterprise Copy.

[Debian] Debian

Support for debian based open-sharedroot configuration will be added soon. Supported file systems will be NFS, GFS2 and OCFS2.

General Tasks

LustreFS

description

Add LustreFS as shared root cluster filesystem

assigned

none

GlusterFS

description

Add GlusterFS as shared root cluster filesystem

assigned

none