[Lustre-discuss] Failure when mounting Lustre

Vilobh Meshram vilobh.meshram at gmail.com
Thu Aug 12 13:51:37 PDT 2010


Thanks a lot for the reply.


True we won't need mkfs.lustre on client as we will only need it at the
Server end to format the storage with the Lustre File System.We had problems
with the Volume group naming convention so lead to errors.


Thanks,
Vilobh



On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Andreas Dilger
<andreas.dilger at oracle.com>wrote:

> Why are you running mkfs.lustre on the client? Please read the manual for
> instructions on how to do initial setup of Lustre.
>
> Cheers, Andreas
>
> On 2010-08-11, at 11:55, Vilobh Meshram <vilobh.meshram at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Hi,
>
> I get the following error when I try to mount lustre on the clients.
>
>
> Permanent disk data:
> Target: lustre-OSTffff
> Index: unassigned
> Lustre FS: lustre
> Mount type: ldiskfs
> Flags: 0x72
> (OST needs_index first_time update )
> Persistent mount opts: errors=remount-ro,extents,mballoc
> Parameters: mgsnode=164.107.119.231 at tcp
>
> sh: losetup: command not found
> mkfs.lustre: error 32512 on losetup: Unknown error 32512
>
> mkfs.lustre FATAL: Loop device setup for /dev/sdb failed: Unknown error
> 32512
> Connection to wci70 closed.
> mount.lustre: mount /dev/sdb at /tmp/ost failed: Block device required
> Do you need -o loop?
> Connection to wci70 closed.
> for CLS wci56...
>
> mount.lustre: mount 164.107.119.231 at tcp:/lustre at /tmp/lustre failed: No
> such device
> Are the lustre modules loaded?
> Check /etc/modprobe.conf and /proc/filesystems
> Note 'alias lustre llite' should be removed from modprobe.conf
> Connection to wci56 closed.
>
>
> Please focus on this line *mkfs.lustre FATAL: Loop device setup for
> /dev/sdb failed: Unknown error 32512*
>
>
> Thanks,
> Vilobh
>
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