The patch did not help either. It brings up the same error. Could there be more patch releases which I can try?
Phil Carns wrote: > This was a bug in our older releases. You can try applying this patch > to fix it if you are still stuck on 1.5.1: > > http://www.pvfs.org/fisheye/rdiff/PVFS?csid=MAIN:slang:20070625220806&u&N > > -Phil > > Nirmal Thacker wrote: >> Phil: >> >> I did add the Distribution context to my pvfs2-fs.conf , and restarted >> the server nodes, and received an "Option cant be defined in that >> context" error. >> The error points to the Filesystem context, maybe indicating that I >> cannot declare the distribution sub-context here (?) >> >> I have attached the error and a copy of my pvfs2-fs.conf >> >> The error comes up when I create a storage space. >> >> [I have 4 storage servers and 1 MDS. I tried by reconfiguring storage >> and restarting the servers and the error persists. It also says that the >> host names must be consistent [see log] . Thats strange since otherwise, >> the servers start fine, without the Distribution context defined] >> >> Nirmal >> >> Phil Carns wrote: >>> Hi Nirmal, >>> >>> I think that you can use the same mechanisms to set distribution >>> parameters in 1.5.1 as in our newer releases. >>> >>> There is some information here about how to set the strip size at run >>> time for a particular directory (no need to recompile): >>> >>> http://www.pvfs.org/fisheye/browse/PVFS/doc/pvfs2-tuning.tex?r=1.2#l208 >>> >>> You can also set a default for the whole file system in your server >>> configuration file by adding a section that looks like this into your >>> <Filesystem> section: >>> >>> <Distribution> >>> Name simple_stripe >>> Param strip_size >>> Value 4194304 >>> </Distribution> >>> >>> -Phil >>> >>> Nirmal Thacker wrote: >>>> Hello >>>> >>>> I am using PVFS2-1.5.1 and as far as I know, to modify the default >>>> stripe size of PVFS2, I must modify the header >>>> include/pvfs2-dist-simple-stripe.h . >>>> >>>> Strangely , I did so and rebuilt the source, yet the pvfs2-viewdist >>>> still shows me the default striping for any new files created with the >>>> modified pvfs2 build! >>>> >>>> Nirmal >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Pvfs2-users mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://www.beowulf-underground.org/mailman/listinfo/pvfs2-users >> > _______________________________________________ Pvfs2-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.beowulf-underground.org/mailman/listinfo/pvfs2-users
