[Lustre-discuss] mkfs.lustre failure on Centos 6.4

[Parinay Kondekar]

What e2fsprogs are you running ? Check if SELINUX is disabled as well.


On 7 August 2013 18:43, Vsevolod Nikonorov <v.nikonorov at nikiet.ru> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I've been trying to create a small cluster of virtual machines to get some
> experience of working with Lustre. I have a dedicated mgs/mds/mdt node
> running a kernel from
> 2.6.32-279.2.1.el6_lustre.1.8.8_x1 Lustre official package. I have
> installed necessary Lustre rpms (lustre-ldiskfs, lustre-modules, lustre)
> corresponding that kernel, which along with the kernel were downloaded from
> 1.8.8 branch folder at downloads.lustre.org. Problem is, when I try to
> execute mkfs.lustre command from the manual (mkfs.lustre --mdt --mgs
> --fsname=SANDBOX /dev/sdb) having, as seen, only changed device name and fs
> name, it fails in the following manner:
>
> [root at test-lustre-mds1 ~]# uname -a
> Linux test-lustre-mds1 2.6.32-279.2.1.el6_lustre.1.8.8_x1 #1 SMP Wed Jul
> 24 04:06:27 EDT 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> [root at test-lustre-mds1 ~]# mkfs.lustre --mdt --mgs --fsname=SANDBOX
> /dev/sdb
>
>    Permanent disk data:
> Target:     SANDBOX-MDTffff
> Index:      unassigned
> Lustre FS:  SANDBOX
> Mount type: ldiskfs
> Flags:      0x75
>               (MDT MGS needs_index first_time update )
> Persistent mount opts: iopen_nopriv,user_xattr,errors=remount-ro
> Parameters: mdt.group_upcall=/usr/sbin/l_getgroups
>
> checking for existing Lustre data: not found
> device size = 16384MB
> 2 6 32
> formatting backing filesystem ldiskfs on /dev/sdb
>         target name  SANDBOX-MDTffff
>         4k blocks     4194304
>         options        -J size=400 -i 4096 -I 512 -q -O
> dir_index,uninit_groups -F
> mkfs_cmd = mke2fs -j -b 4096 -L SANDBOX-MDTffff  -J size=400 -i 4096 -I
> 512 -q -O dir_index,uninit_groups -F /dev/sdb 4194304
> mkfs.lustre: Can't make configs dir /tmp/mnt4Nt2GT/CONFIGS: Permission
> denied
>
> mkfs.lustre FATAL: failed to write local files
> mkfs.lustre: exiting with -1 (Unknown error 18446744073709551615)
>
> What should I do to debug this issue?
>
> Thanks,
> Vsevolod
>
> --
> Всеволод Никоноров,
> ОИТТиС, НИКИЭТ
>
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