[Lustre-discuss] problem formatting the mgs.

[Kevin Van Maren]

Do you have selinux disabled?

Kevin


On Feb 15, 2009, at 3:08 AM, James Beal <james.beal at sanger.ac.uk> wrote:

>
> I had all this working smoothly in the past but I am now stuck
> here..... Any suggestions welcome.
>
>
> uname -a
> Linux sf3-mds1 2.6.22.19-lustre-1.6.6 #2 SMP Tue Nov 18 09:21:20 GMT
> 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
>
>  mkfs.lustre --reformat --mgs --fsname=sf3-1 --
> failnode=172.17.99.9 at tcp0 --mkfsoptions '"-Estride=8,stripe-
> width=112"' /dev/sf3-1-mdt0/sf3-1
>
>    Permanent disk data:
> Target:     MGS
> Index:      unassigned
> Lustre FS:  sf3-1
> Mount type: ldiskfs
> Flags:      0x74
>               (MGS needs_index first_time update )
> Persistent mount opts: errors=remount-ro,iopen_nopriv,user_xattr
> Parameters: failover.node=172.17.99.9 at tcp
>
> device size = 1738684MB
> 2 6 22
> formatting backing filesystem ldiskfs on /dev/sf3-1-mdt0/sf3-1
>    target name  MGS
>    4k blocks     0
>    options       "-Estride=8,stripe-width=112" -J size=400 -q -O
> dir_index,uninit_groups,mmp -F
> mkfs_cmd = mkfs.ext2 -j -b 4096 -L MGS "-Estride=8,stripe-width=112" -
> J size=400 -q -O dir_index,uninit_groups,mmp -F /dev/sf3-1-mdt0/sf3-1
> mkfs.lustre: Unable to mount /dev/sf3-1-mdt0/sf3-1: Invalid argument
>
> mkfs.lustre FATAL: failed to write local files
> mkfs.lustre: exiting with 22 (Invalid argument)
>
> lvdisplay
>   --- Logical volume ---
>   LV Name                /dev/sf3-1-mdt0/sf3-1
>   VG Name                sf3-1-mdt0
>   LV UUID                9c7OXl-ALAd-CjZj-9H2D-bA2P-btsY-RCcmEA
>   LV Write Access        read/write
>   LV Status              available
>   # open                 0
>   LV Size                1.66 TB
>   Current LE             434671
>   Segments               1
>   Allocation             inherit
>   Read ahead sectors     0
>   Block device           254:2
>
>   --- Logical volume ---
>   LV Name                /dev/sf3-1-msg0/sf3-1
>   VG Name                sf3-1-msg0
>   LV UUID                fzRLlw-lF6s-olIZ-9RXr-VgJm-WwtH-yMbVqL
>   LV Write Access        read/write
>   LV Status              available
>   # open                 0
>   LV Size                199.93 GB
>   Current LE             51183
>   Segments               1
>   Allocation             inherit
>   Read ahead sectors     0
>   Block device           254:3
>
> dmesg ....
> eth1: no IPv6 routers present
> VFS: Can't find ldiskfs filesystem on dev dm-2.
> VFS: Can't find ldiskfs filesystem on dev dm-2.
>
>
> The following modules probe happily : lustre, lnet, ldiskfs
>
> sysctl -w lnet.debug=-1
> lnet.debug = -1
>
>
> sf3-mds1:/var/log# mkfs.lustre --reformat --mgs --fsname=sf3-1 --
> failnode=172.17.99.9 at tcp0 --mkfsoptions '"-Estride=8,stripe-
> width=112"' /dev/sf3-1-mdt0/sf3-1
>
>    Permanent disk data:
> .......
> mkfs.lustre: exiting with 22 (Invalid argument)
> sf3-mds1:/var/log#  lctl dk /tmp/debug
> Debug log: 3 lines, 3 kept, 0 dropped.
> sf3-mds1:/var/log# sysctl -w lnet.debug=0
> lnet.debug = 0
> sf3-mds1:/var/log# cat /tmp/debug
> 00000400:02000000:7:1234692197.225082:0:4360:0:(api-ni.c:
> 1124:lnet_startup_lndnis()) Added LNI 172.17.99.10 at tcp [8/256]
> 00000400:02000000:7:1234692197.225242:0:4434:0:(acceptor.c:
> 406:lnet_acceptor()) Accept secure, port 988
> 00000400:00020000:7:1234692197.225324:0:4360:0:(router_proc.c:
> 1013:lnet_proc_init()) couldn't create proc entry sys/lnet/stats
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