[Lustre-discuss] Lustre-1.9.210: mkfs.ldiskfs?

[Andreas Dilger]

On Jul 01, 2009  13:03 -0400, Josephine Palencia wrote:
> [root at attractor ~]# cat /proc/fs/lustre/version
> lustre: 1.9.210
> 
> Looking for mkfs.ldiskfs during mkfs.lustre?
> Did a find on previous working lustre-1.9 working and didn't find one.
> Ps advice.

Well, mkfs.ldiskfs doesn't exist, it should just be using mkfs.ext3
to create the backing filesystem.

Please file a bug against the 1.9.210 release (if it exists), or HEAD.

> [root at attractor ~]# mkfs.lustre --fsname=jwan0 --mdt --mgs /dev/hdc1
> 
>     Permanent disk data:
> Target:     jwan0-MDTffff
> Index:      unassigned
> Lustre FS:  jwan0
> Mount type: ldiskfs
> Flags:      0x75
>                (MDT MGS needs_index first_time update )
> Persistent mount opts: errors=remount-ro,iopen_nopriv,user_xattr
> Parameters:
> 
> checking for existing Lustre data: not found
> device size = 19085MB
> 2 6 18
> formatting backing filesystem ldiskfs on /dev/hdc1
>          target name  jwan0-MDTffff
>          4k blocks     0
>          options        -J size=400 -i 4096 -I 512 -q -O 
> dir_index,uninit_groups -F
> mkfs_cmd = mkfs.ldiskfs -j -b 4096 -L jwan0-MDTffff  -J size=400 -i 4096 
> -I 512 -q -O dir_index,uninit_groups -F /dev/hdc1
>     sh: mkfs.ldiskfs: command not found
> 
> mkfs.lustre FATAL: Unable to build fs /dev/hdc1 (32512)
> 
> mkfs.lustre FATAL: mkfs failed 32512

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.