<font color="#3333ff"><font size="2"><font face="times new roman,serif">Thanks a lot for the reply.<br><br><br>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.<br>
<br><br clear="all"></font></font></font><font color="#3333ff"><font face="'times new roman', serif">Thanks,<br>Vilobh<br></font></font><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Andreas Dilger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andreas.dilger@oracle.com">andreas.dilger@oracle.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Why are you running mkfs.lustre on the client? Please read the manual for instructions on how to do initial setup of Lustre. <br><br>Cheers, Andreas</div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><div><br>
On 2010-08-11, at 11:55, Vilobh Meshram <<a href="mailto:vilobh.meshram@gmail.com" target="_blank">vilobh.meshram@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><font color="#3333ff"><font size="2"><font face="times new roman,serif"><div class="gmail_quote" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: medium;">
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<div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px;"><div style="direction: ltr;"><font color="#0000ff"><span style="font-size: small;">Hi,</span></font></div>
<div style="direction: ltr;"><font color="#0000ff"><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></font></div><div style="direction: ltr;"><font color="#0000ff"><span style="font-size: small;">I get the following error when I try to mount lustre on the clients.</span></font></div>
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</span></div><div style="direction: ltr;"><span style="font-size: small; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Permanent disk data:</span></div><div><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-size: 16px;">
<div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Target: lustre-OSTffff<br>Index: unassigned<br>Lustre FS: lustre<br>Mount type: ldiskfs<br>Flags: 0x72<br>(OST needs_index first_time update )<br>Persistent mount opts: errors=remount-ro,extents,mballoc<br>
Parameters: mgsnode=164.107.119.231@tcp<br><br>sh: losetup: command not found<br>mkfs.lustre: error 32512 on losetup: Unknown error 32512<br><br>mkfs.lustre FATAL: Loop device setup for /dev/sdb failed: Unknown error 32512<br>
Connection to wci70 closed.<br>mount.lustre: mount /dev/sdb at /tmp/ost failed: Block device required<br>Do you need -o loop?<br>Connection to wci70 closed.<br>for CLS wci56...<br><br>mount.lustre: mount 164.107.119.231@tcp:/lustre at /tmp/lustre failed: No such device<br>
Are the lustre modules loaded?<br>Check /etc/modprobe.conf and /proc/filesystems<br>Note 'alias lustre llite' should be removed from modprobe.conf<br>Connection to wci56 closed.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><br>
</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Please focus on this line </span><b><span style="font-size: small;">mkfs.lustre FATAL: Loop device setup for /dev/sdb failed: Unknown error 32512</span></b></div>
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<font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><span style="font-size: small;"><font face="'Times New Roman'">Thanks,</font></span><span style="font-size: small;"><font face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></span><span style="font-size: small;"><font face="'Times New Roman'">Vilobh</font></span><span style="font-size: small;"><font face="'Times New Roman'"><br>
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