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<p class="MsoPlainText">All,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">I am trying to reformat an OST which was originally created with lustre 2.3 with lustre 2.4 mkefs.lustre.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Command:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b>mkfs.lustre --reformat --ost --index=0 --fsname=WORK --mgsnode=10.100.1.10@o2ib /dev/VG_Lustre/WORK_OST0<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courrier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courrier New""> Permanent disk data:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courrier New"">Target: WORK:OST0000<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courrier New"">Index: 0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courrier New"">Lustre FS: WORK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courrier New"">Mount type: ldiskfs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courrier New"">Flags: 0x62<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courrier New""> (OST first_time update )<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courrier New"">Persistent mount opts: errors=remount-ro<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courrier New"">Parameters: mgsnode=10.100.1.10@o2ib<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courrier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courrier New"">device size = 16776956MB<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courrier New"">formatting backing filesystem ldiskfs on /dev/VG_Hamming/WORK_OST0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courrier New""> target name WORK:OST0000<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courrier New""> 4k blocks 4294900736<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courrier New""> options -J size=400 -I 256 -i 524288 -q -O extents,uninit_bg,dir_nlink,quota,huge_file,flex_bg -G 256 -E resize=4290772992,lazy_journal_init
-F<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courrier New"">mkfs_cmd = mke2fs -j -b 4096 -L WORK:OST0000 -J size=400 -I 256 -i 524288 -q -O extents,uninit_bg,dir_nlink,quota,huge_file,flex_bg -G 256 -E resize=4290772992,lazy_journal_init
-F /dev/VG_Hamming/WORK_OST0 4294900736<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courrier New""> The resize maximum must be greater than the filesystem size.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courrier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courrier New""> Bad option(s) specified:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courrier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courrier New""> Extended options are separated by commas, and may take an argument which<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courrier New""> is set off by an equals ('=') sign.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courrier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courrier New""> Valid extended options are:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courrier New""> stride=<RAID per-disk data chunk in blocks><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courrier New""> stripe-width=<RAID stride * data disks in blocks><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courrier New""> resize=<resize maximum size in blocks><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courrier New""> lazy_itable_init=<0 to disable, 1 to enable><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courrier New""> lazy_journal_init=<0 to disable, 1 to enable><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courrier New""> test_fs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courrier New""> discard<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courrier New""> nodiscard<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courrier New""> quotatype=<usr OR grp><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courrier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courrier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courrier New"">mkfs.lustre FATAL: Unable to build fs /dev/VG_Hamming/WORK_OST0 (256)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courrier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courrier New"">mkfs.lustre FATAL: mkfs failed 256<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">I see some bugs from lustre 1.8 (LU-399) referencing the error, but nothing for 2.4
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Maybe it is how I am trying to make the filesystem that is causing grief.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Can anyone provide some input/advice here?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Thanks in advance,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Brian Andrus<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">ITACS/Research Computing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Naval Postgraduate School<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Monterey, California<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">voice: 831-656-6238<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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