[Ocfs2-devel] Re: Playing with OCFS2
Manish Singh
manish.singh at oracle.com
Thu Jan 29 16:19:06 CST 2004
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 03:21:58PM -0800, Villalovos, John L wrote:
> I just took the latest version of OCFS2 code from Subversions today.
>
> I am using a Fedora Core 1 system with all updates applied.
>
> I am using a Firewire Maxtor drive to put it on. Currently only testing
> with one computer and one drive.
>
> I was able to build the OCFS2 and OCFS-TOOLS components with no
> problems.
>
> I copied the ocfs2.o module to my local /lib/modules... Directory.
>
> I ran:
> mkfs.ocfs -F -b 128 -L ocfs-test -m /ocfs /dev/sda1
> (not sure why mkfs.ocfs wants to know where the partition will
> be mounted???)
>
> I ran:
> ocfstool and created my /etc/ocfs.conf
>
> I then ran:
> load_ocfs2 and it complained about ip_port_v2 missing. So I
> created an ip_port_v2 entry with a value of 7002.
>
> Re-ran:
> load_ocfs2 and the driver loaded.
>
> I then tried to mount the volume:
> mount -t ocfs /dev/sda1 /ocfs
>
> waited for awhile and it returned but no drive was mounted :(
>
> So I'm not sure what I did wrong.
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
The filesystem type for OCFS2 is "ocfs2", not "ocfs". Not sure why it would
take a long time with "ocfs" though..
Try with "ocfs2" and see what happens.
-Manish
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