[Ocfs2-users] Problem with mkfs.ocfs2

[Sunil Mushran]

The qs was regarding mkfs not fsck.

On 03/01/2011 11:41 PM, Thomas Lau wrote:
> Does it means OCFS2 don't require to be offline to do fsck ?
>
> On 02/03/2011 2:43 PM, Sunil Mushran wrote:
>> The real error should be in dmesg. Guessing it was unable to connect to all nodes.
>>
>> On Mar 1, 2011, at 9:23 PM, "Curley, Rob" <rob.curley at windriver.com <mailto:rob.curley at windriver.com>> wrote:
>>
>>> When I try and run the mkfs.ocfs2 command after I have updated all of the other nodes in the cluster with the new node information in cluster.conf I am getting the following error:
>>> mkfs.ocfs2 -b 4k -C 32K -L "ocfs2" -N 4 /dev/sdb1
>>> mkfs.ocfs2 1.4.4
>>> Cluster stack: classic o2cb
>>> Overwriting existing ocfs2 partition.
>>> mkfs.ocfs2: Could not create domain while initializing the dlm
>>> As this is an existing OCFS2 volume, it could be mounted on an another node in the cluster.
>>> However, as mkfs.ocfs2 is unable to initialize the dlm, it cannot detect if the volume is in use or not.
>>> To skip this check, use --force or -F.
>>> The only other item to note is that when I do the status command, the heartbeat is inactive:
>>> /etc/init.d/o2cb status
>>> Driver for "configfs": Loaded
>>> Filesystem "configfs": Mounted
>>> Driver for "ocfs2_dlmfs": Loaded
>>> Filesystem "ocfs2_dlmfs": Mounted
>>> Checking O2CB cluster ocfs2: Online
>>> Heartbeat dead threshold = 31
>>>   Network idle timeout: 30000
>>>   Network keepalive delay: 2000
>>>   Network reconnect delay: 2000
>>> Checking O2CB heartbeat: Not active
>>> Version of ocfs2 on this node: 1.4.4 (Redhat 5.6 x86_64)
>>> Version of ocfs2 on all other nodes (5 others): 1.4.2-1 (Redhat 5.3 i686)
>>> Do I need to shut down all other nodes in the cluster?
>>> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>>  - Thanks
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