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

[Derek Suzuki]

	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