Installing OCFS2 packages

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The two OCFS2 Version 1.2 packages that are installed with Novell SUSE Linux® Enterprise Server (SLES) 10 SP1 are named ocfs2-tools and the ocfs2console.

It is possible to do every installation and configuration step using Linux commands. However, the ocfs2console, a GUI program, is advantageous for performing Step 1 in Creating the OCFS2 cluster environment. This step is to create and propagate identical OCFS2 configurations to all the nodes in the cluster. The ocfs2console ensures that the cluster configuration files work together. The installer code level must match the code level of the file system.

The ocfs2console can be used for these tasks:
  1. Build the cluster of nodes.
  2. Format the shared devices.
  3. Mount and unmount OCFS2 volumes.
  4. Add or remove nodes to the cluster.
  5. Label disks.
  6. Add slots to disk clusters so that more nodes can access the disk.