So I realized that I wanted to use OCFS as my filesystem of choice for this install, but when I went to install the rpms available from here I kept getting script errors. The rpms were designed for RHEL2.1 and/or RHEL3 so they would not install completely. I could 'rpm -qa |grep 'ocfs' ' and all the packages I installed would be there, but I could not get 'ocfstool' to start. So I went hunting for a file to hack. I found '/proc/sys/kernel/ostype & /proc/sys/kernel/osrelease', but these are not writeable files (even by root). So I tried using 'sysctl', but I still could not update these parameters. I'm still trying to find a way to get around this.
Until the OCFS rpm is updated for RHEL4, installing it is an exercise in futility. You will need to install OCFS and OCFS Tools from source. This is also not an easy process. So I have now spent most of my morning hacking all kinds of files trying to get OCFSv1 or v2 installed on RHEL4 and it just will not co-operate. I'm throwing in the towel on this one and waiting for a code refresh of OCFS to work with RHEL4.
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