[Lustre-discuss] lustre and software RAID

[Samuel Aparicio]

I am having the following issue:

trying to create an ext4 lustre filesystem attached to an OSS.
the disks being used are exported from an external disk enclosure.
i create a raid10 set with mdadm from 16 2Tb disks, this part seems fine.
I am able to format such an array with normal ext4, mount a filesytem etc.
however when i try the same thing, trying to format for a lustre filesystem I am unable to mount the filesystem and lustre does not seem to detect it.
the lustre format completes normally, without errors.

If I arrange to present the disks as a RAID10 set from the external disk enclosure, which has it's own internal RAID capability,
(rather than trying to use mdadm on the OSS) the lustre formatting works fine and I can get a mountable OST.

the kernel log reports the following when a mount is attempted:

LDISKFS-fs (md2): VFS: Can't find ldiskfs filesystem
LustreError: 15241:0:(obd_mount.c:1292:server_kernel_mount()) premount /dev/md2:0x0 ldiskfs failed: -22, ldiskfs2 failed: -19.  Is the ldiskfs module available?
LustreError: 15241:0:(obd_mount.c:1618:server_fill_super()) Unable to mount device /dev/md2: -22
LustreError: 15241:0:(obd_mount.c:2050:lustre_fill_super()) Unable to mount  (-22)

lsmod reports that all the modules are loaded

fsck reports the following
fsck 1.41.10.sun2 (24-Feb-2010)
e2fsck 1.41.10.sun2 (24-Feb-2010)
fsck.ext2: Superblock invalid, trying backup blocks...
fsck.ext2: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev//md2

It would seem the filesystem has not been written properly, but mkfs reports no errors ....

lustre version 1.8.4
kernel 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5_lustre.1.8.4
disk array is a coraid SATA/AOE device which has worked fine in every other context

this seems like an interaction of lustre with software RAID on the OSS?
I wonder if anyone has seen anything like this before.
any ideas about this?




Professor Samuel Aparicio BM BCh PhD FRCPath
Nan and Lorraine Robertson Chair UBC/BC Cancer Agency
675 West 10th, Vancouver V5Z 1L3, Canada.
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