[Lustre-discuss] Help with lustre 1.6.4

[Alex Lyashkov]

On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 14:10 -0800, Cliff White wrote:
> Ali Algarrous wrote:
> > My name is Ali Algarrous and I'm doing a research about Lustre file
> > systesm.
> > 
> > I'm running Debian on my machine and after a long time I was able to
> > install Lustre on my machine. I was able to format devices and mount
> > clients and servers easily but I had to reinstall the OS. So I started
> > the process of installing Lustre again and this time it was really
> > easy.
> > 
> > However, I came across another problem.  When i'm running this
> > command:  mkfs.lustre --fsname datafs --mdt --mgs /dev/sda3
> > 
> > I get the following error messgae:
> > ______________________________________________________________________
> > gog:~# mkfs.lustre --fsname spfs --mdt --mgs /dev/sda3
> > 
> >  Permanent disk data:
> > Target:     spfs-MDTffff
> > Index:      unassigned
> > Lustre FS:  spfs
> > Mount type: ldiskfs
> > Flags:      0x75
> >             (MDT MGS needs_index first_time update )
> > Persistent mount opts: errors=remount-ro,iopen_nopriv,user_xattr
> > Parameters: mdt.group_upcall=/usr/sbin/l_getgroups
> > 
> > 
> > mkfs.lustre FATAL: loop device requires a --device-size= param
> > 
> > mkfs.lustre FATAL: Loop device setup for /dev/sda3 failed: Invalid
> > argument
> > mkfs.lustre: exiting with 22 (Invalid argument)
> > _______________________________________________________________________
This is bug 14647.
Lustre wrong assume about use loop device if real block device not
exist. check you /dev directory for sda3 entry.


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Alex Lyashkov <Alexey.lyashkov at sun.com>
Lustre Group, Sun Microsystems