On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 12:42 AM, Andreas Dilger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 22, 2008 18:08 -0600, Chris Worley wrote: > > The error specifically complains about the first OST/disk on the new > > OSS, OST0026. It's tunefs.lustre output was: > > > > > > On the OSS in question, for each OST, I did: > > > > > > # tunefs.lustre --writeconf --ost > > > > > > --mgsnode="[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED]" --fsname=lfs --param > > > sys.timeout=40 --param lov.stripesize=2M /dev/sdl > > > > Lustre: cmd=cf003 0:lfs-OST0026-osc 1:lfs-OST0026_UUID 2:[EMAIL > > > PROTECTED] > > > LustreError: 15c-8: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The configuration from log > > > 'lfs-client' failed (-2). This may be the result of communication > > > errors between this node and the MGS, a bad configuration, or other > > > errors. See the syslog for more information. > > The problem is that the NID for the new OST is the IPoIB address, and this > is what the TCP client is trying to connect to. If you specify the TCP > NID first this may help. Also note that the client does not get the > config from the OSTs, but rather the MGS, so you need to do a --write-conf > on there.
This is confusing as the man page for "tunefs.lustre" wants a device name at the end of the command... and the device is on another OSS... "/dev/sda" on the MGS is a totally different drive. Can I use the label? Thanks, Chris > > Cheers, Andreas > -- > Andreas Dilger > Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group > Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc. > > _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
