[Ocfs2-users] Local mount in 1.4?

Sunil Mushran sunil.mushran at oracle.com
Mon Feb 9 14:47:44 PST 2009


I hope the tools are 1.4.

Enable some tracing. Do:
$ debugfs.ocfs2 -l ENTRY EXIT SUPER allow;
$ mount ...
$ debugfs.ocfs2 -l ENTRY EXIT deny SUPER off;

The logs will be in /var/log/messages.

Bruce MacDonald wrote:
> 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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