[maemo-developers] OCFS2/iSCSI for OS2008

[From: Nicholas A. Bellinger]

Greetings all,

I am pleased to announce the first protoype for running the Oracle
Cluster Filesystem using Linux/iSCSI over Wifi on Maemo OS 2008 devices
using v2.6.21:

http://linux-iscsi.org/index.php/OCFS2/iSCSI_for_OS-2008

The builds are available from:

http://linux-iscsi.org/builds/maemo/OS2008/

There are still limitiations wrt Distributed Lock Manager (DLM) wire
protocol version changes, as the prototype setup currently must use N800
and i386 Ubuntu VMs both running 2.6.21 that speak v7 of the protocol
DLM access with OCFS2 v1.3.3. I believe v8 of this protocol for OCFS2
v1.5.0 is the latest in v2.6.25 mainline, which is something that the
project will have to wait for from Nokia, or the latest stable OCFS2
gets backported for v2.6.21 :-).  Also, I will be running this same
setup on 2.6.24 in the upcoming weeks on new OpenMoko hardware, so stay
tuned.

I will be adding a small HOWTO for getting setup, but if you have
experience with OCFS2 elsewhere, getting setup with the current .deb
packages is straightforward.  If anyone needs some pointers for getting
setup on the Target side until then, have a look at:

http://linux-iscsi.org/index.php/LIO-Target
http://linux-iscsi.org/index.php/LIO-VM
http://linux-iscsi.org/index.php/Main_Page#Mailing_List

--nab