[Lustre-discuss] New lustre 1.8.5 over IB problem

[Malcolm Cowe]

On 14/12/2010 05:54, Gary Molenkamp wrote:
> On the MDS (with an intended failover to a secondary) the mgs,mdt
> filesystem is created with:
>
>   mkfs.lustre --fsname lfs --mdt --mgs \
> 	--mkfsoptions='-i 1024 -I 512' \
> 	--failnode=10.27.9.133 at o2ib0 --failnode=10.27.9.132 at o2ib0  \
> 	--mountfsoptions=iopen_nopriv,user_xattr,errors=remount-ro,acl \
> 	/dev/sda
>
> However, this mount then fails with:
>
> mount.lustre: mount /dev/sda at /data/mds failed: Cannot assign
> requested address
Shouldn't there only be one "--failnode" flag? IIRC, failnode should 
only reference the secondary / standby server, not the primary (i.e. the 
node where the mkfs command is being executed).

Malcolm.