[Ocfs2-users] Local mount in 1.4?

Bruce MacDonald bruce at rbmacdonald.ca
Mon Feb 9 14:10:52 PST 2009


Thanks for replying Sunil.  No, nothing in dmesg.

On 9-Feb-09, at 13:41, Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran at oracle.com> wrote:

> Bruce MacDonald wrote:
>> I'm playing around with OCFS2 as a local filesystem, as an  
>> alternative to using XFS for a multi-terabyte database.  Using OEL  
>> 5.2 from the demo DVD, I download the latest OCFS2 1.4 packages and  
>> format the filesystem, but when I try to mount it, I get a "file  
>> not found" error, as if "/u01" doesn't exist (which it does).
>>
>> If I do the same thing but install OCFS2 1.2 from the DVD, this  
>> works without problem.
>>
>> Should 1.4 work as a local filesystem, or am I missing something?
>
> Support for local mounts is in OCFS2 1.4. Does dmesg say anything?



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