[Ocfs-users] Odd errors while mounting an OCFS filesystem

[Wim Coekaerts]

hm do you have ultra small volumes or so ?

On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 07:15:32PM -0800, Derek Suzuki wrote:
> 	Hello again.  I am setting up a new pair of servers to run RAC.
> They're connected via fibre-channel to a hardware RAID array, and both are
> able to see the exposed LUNs.
> 	When I create an OCFS filesystem on one node with mkfs.ocfs, I can
> mount it.  When I try to mount from the other node, however, it fails.
> After that, the filesystem is left in a state where neither node can mount
> it.  The kernel throws errors such as the following:
> 
> (3261) ERROR: status = -999, Common/ocfsgensysfile.c, 339
> (3261) ERROR: status = -999, Common/ocfsgenmisc.c, 71
> (3261) ERROR: status = -999, Common/ocfsgenmisc.c, 389
> (3261) ERROR: status = -999, Common/ocfsgenmisc.c, 842
> (3261) ERROR: status = -999, Linux/ocfsmount.c, 292
> (3261) ERROR: Error mounting volume, Linux/ocfsmain.c, 310
> ocfs: Unmounting device (8,1) on node1 (node 0)
> ocfs: Adding node2 (node 0) to clustered device (8,1)
> (3264) ERROR: Systemfile cannot allocate contiguously 8 blocks,
> Common/ocfsgencreate.c, 358
> (3264) ERROR: status = -28, Common/ocfsgensysfile.c, 456
> (3264) ERROR: status = -28, Common/ocfsgenmisc.c, 104
> (3264) ERROR: status = -28, Common/ocfsgenmisc.c, 389
> (3264) ERROR: status = -28, Common/ocfsgenmisc.c, 842
> (3264) ERROR: status = -28, Linux/ocfsmount.c, 292
> (3264) ERROR: Error mounting volume, Linux/ocfsmain.c, 310
> ocfs: Unmounting device (8,1) on node1 (node 1)
> ocfs: Adding node2 (node 0) to clustered device (8,1)
> (3275) ERROR: Systemfile cannot allocate contiguously 80 blocks,
> Common/ocfsgencreate.c, 358
> (3275) ERROR: status = -28, Common/ocfsgensysfile.c, 456
> 
> 	On a whim, I tried reformatting with ocfstool, and then I was able
> to mount the filesystem from both nodes with no problems.  I figure that
> mkfs.ocfs may just be broken, in which case I'll just create all of my
> filesystems with ocfstool.  I do worry, however, about the overall stability
> of the filesystems in the long run.
> 	The servers are running Red Hat Enterprise 3 AS with the latest
> (9.0.1) SMP kernel.  I have the 1.0.9-12 release of OCFS.
> 	Any thoughts?
> 
> Derek
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