[Lustre-discuss] Unable to activate OST

[Andreas Dilger]

On 2010-01-14, at 21:31, Dusty Marks wrote:
> [root at oss ~]# mkfs.lustre --fsname=datafs --ost -- 
> mgsnode=192.168.0.2 at tcp0 [root at oss ~]# mount -t lustre /dev/lustre/ 
> OST /lustre/OSS
> mount.lustre: mount /dev/lustre/OST at /lustre/OSS failed: Input/ 
> output error
> Is the MGS running?


There is probably an error in /var/log/messages and/or "dmesg" that  
will tell you what is going wrong.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.