[Lustre-discuss] exporting lustre over nfs to osx

Tue Apr 21 14:29:27 PDT 2009

Andreas,
Thanks, that does seem to fix the error.  Fortunately its just a test
environment so i can just create the uid on the lustre servers and off i go,
i dont need to mess around with ldap.

a more descriptive error message would have been nice... :)

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Andreas Dilger <adilger at sun.com> wrote:

> On Apr 21, 2009  16:56 -0400, Michael Di Domenico wrote:
> > it seems that everything is working, so long as i'm root.  when i try to
> do
> > operations on the nfs share as a regular user i'm getting i/o errors,
> both
> > cmdline and through the finder.
> > i created a directory as root and then chown'd it my user, switched to my
> > user in another terminal window and tried to touch a file
> >
> > this seems to pop up in /var/log/messages on the nfs server
> >
> > Apr 21 16:54:25 orange kernel: LustreError:
> 9357:0:(dir.c:384:ll_readdir())
> > error reading dir 95641/3917193484 page 0: rc -43
> > Apr 21 16:54:25 orange kernel: nfsd: non-standard errno: -43
>
> -43 = Linux errno -EIDRM, which means that the UID/GID on your mac does not
> match any known UID/GID on the MDS.  You need to update /etc/hosts and
> /etc/group on the MDS to add your user.  There are lots of past postings
> about EIDRM if you are interested in the details.
>
> Alternately, in the past I've updated the UID/GID on my Mac, with careful
> use of the ldap tool, but I don't recall the details (I found it on a Mac
> site via Google).  I created a temporary Admin account, updated the Mac
> LDAP for my main user account to reflect the new UID/GID I wanted, then
> did "find -uid {olduid} -print0 /my/home/dir | xargs -0 chown {newuid}",
> and the same for the GID.
>
> Please update the list on your results, so that it will be in the archive
> for future reference.
>
> > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Michael Di Domenico <
> mdidomenico4 at gmail.com
> > > wrote:
> >
> > > yes, using mount from terminal does seem to work just fine without
> options.
> > >  i would have liked to use the finder to mount, but it works so far.
>  i'll
> > > keep testing though
> > >
> > > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Adeyemi Adesanya <
> yemi at slac.stanford.edu>wrote:
> > >
> > >>
> > >> I would try using 'mount' from the command line because you can try
> > >> various options. The '-P' (resvport) option may be required to force
> the
> > >> client to connect using a reserved port number. You will need to run
> 'mount'
> > >> as root in order to use this option.
> > >>
> > >> check the man pages for mount and mount_nfs on your mac.
> > >>
> > >> ------
> > >> Yemi
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On Apr 21, 2009, at 1:29 PM, Michael Di Domenico wrote:
> > >>
> > >>  I used finder on the mac to mount the filesystem, but i wouldn't
> > >>> expect that to be any different then opening a terminal window and
> > >>> using the mount command, but i'll try it
> > >>>
> > >>> I do see these in /var/log/messages
> > >>>
> > >>> Apr 21 15:52:19 orange kernel: nfsd: non-standard errno: -43
> > >>> Apr 21 15:52:19 orange last message repeated 3 times
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> On 4/21/09, Brian J. Murrell <Brian.Murrell at sun.com> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>> On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 15:59 -0400, Michael Di Domenico wrote:
> > >>>>
> > >>>>> Is it possible to mount a lustre file system that's being exported
> via
> > >>>>> nfs,
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Yes.
> > >>>>
> > >>>>  on a Mac OSX workstation?
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Dunno about that part.  I haven't done that myself.
> > >>>>
> > >>>>  I searched through the web, but I'm unable to find any references
> to
> > >>>>> anyone trying it whether successful or failure.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Certainly there is lots of success stories of mounting nfs exported
> > >>>> lustre.  As for the specifically with MacOS X, that's the unknown.
> > >>>>
> > >>>>  When I try it here on my testbed it mounts fine, but sending any
> data
> > >>>>> causes an input/output error and does not create the file at all.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Do you get any errors on the Lustre client (NFS server)?
> > >>>>
> > >>>> b.
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
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>
> Cheers, Andreas
> --
> Andreas Dilger
> Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
> Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.
>
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