| David Teigland | b3b94fa | 2006-01-16 16:50:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | config GFS2_FS |
| Steven Whitehouse | b5ea3e1 | 2006-04-24 14:14:42 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 2 | tristate "GFS2 file system support" |
| Steven Whitehouse | 1052849 | 2008-02-27 17:56:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 3 | depends on EXPERIMENTAL && (64BIT || (LSF && LBD)) |
| Steven Whitehouse | b5ea3e1 | 2006-04-24 14:14:42 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 4 | select FS_POSIX_ACL |
| Steven Whitehouse | fa2ecfc5e | 2006-11-20 10:04:49 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 5 | select CRC32 |
| Steven Whitehouse | b5ea3e1 | 2006-04-24 14:14:42 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 6 | help |
| Randy Dunlap | 9beeb9f | 2007-01-30 14:30:08 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 7 | A cluster filesystem. |
| David Teigland | b3b94fa | 2006-01-16 16:50:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 8 | |
| Randy Dunlap | 9beeb9f | 2007-01-30 14:30:08 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 9 | Allows a cluster of computers to simultaneously use a block device |
| 10 | that is shared between them (with FC, iSCSI, NBD, etc...). GFS reads |
| 11 | and writes to the block device like a local filesystem, but also uses |
| 12 | a lock module to allow the computers coordinate their I/O so |
| 13 | filesystem consistency is maintained. One of the nifty features of |
| 14 | GFS is perfect consistency -- changes made to the filesystem on one |
| 15 | machine show up immediately on all other machines in the cluster. |
| David Teigland | b3b94fa | 2006-01-16 16:50:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 16 | |
| Steven Whitehouse | 048bca2 | 2008-05-23 14:46:04 +0100 | [diff] [blame^] | 17 | To use the GFS2 filesystem in a cluster, you will need to enable |
| 18 | the locking module below. Documentation and utilities for GFS2 can |
| Randy Dunlap | 9beeb9f | 2007-01-30 14:30:08 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 19 | be found here: http://sources.redhat.com/cluster |
| David Teigland | b3b94fa | 2006-01-16 16:50:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 20 | |
| Steven Whitehouse | 048bca2 | 2008-05-23 14:46:04 +0100 | [diff] [blame^] | 21 | The "nolock" lock module is now built in to GFS2 by default. |
| David Teigland | b3b94fa | 2006-01-16 16:50:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 22 | |
| 23 | config GFS2_FS_LOCKING_DLM |
| 24 | tristate "GFS2 DLM locking module" |
| Adrian Bunk | 0011727 | 2007-01-28 17:19:50 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 25 | depends on GFS2_FS && SYSFS && NET && INET && (IPV6 || IPV6=n) |
| Steven Whitehouse | 1003f06 | 2006-12-12 10:16:25 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 26 | select IP_SCTP if DLM_SCTP |
| 27 | select CONFIGFS_FS |
| David Teigland | b3b94fa | 2006-01-16 16:50:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 28 | select DLM |
| David Teigland | b3b94fa | 2006-01-16 16:50:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 29 | help |
| Randy Dunlap | 9beeb9f | 2007-01-30 14:30:08 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 30 | Multiple node locking module for GFS2 |
| David Teigland | b3b94fa | 2006-01-16 16:50:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 31 | |
| Randy Dunlap | 9beeb9f | 2007-01-30 14:30:08 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 32 | Most users of GFS2 will require this module. It provides the locking |
| 33 | interface between GFS2 and the DLM, which is required to use GFS2 |
| 34 | in a cluster environment. |