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

[Derek Suzuki]

 Great.  Thanks for the tip.

-----Original Message-----
From: Wim Coekaerts
To: Derek Suzuki
Cc: 'Wim Coekaerts '; ''ocfs-users at oss.oracle.com' '
Sent: 3/2/2004 8:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Ocfs-users] Odd errors while mounting an OCFS filesystem

riht doesn't work
you need like a few 100mb at least

2.5 or 3mb is where first data starts
when a node mounts, it creates 32 system files (or there abouts)
so when a second node mounts it will create those and there just won't
be enough room. I think like 20-30mb is the Absoluut minimum


On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 08:15:39PM -0800, Derek Suzuki wrote:
>  Yes.  For testing purposes we created a 14MB volume.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wim Coekaerts
> To: Derek Suzuki
> Cc: 'ocfs-users at oss.oracle.com'
> Sent: 3/2/2004 7:22 PM
> Subject: Re: [Ocfs-users] Odd errors while mounting an OCFS filesystem
> 
> 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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