Mingliang: Sounds like Michael Moore is helping you now, so I would stick to his suggestions and try OrangeFS. As he noted, the code may not work under 2.6.35, but we are working to update the code for the newer versions of the kernel. Keep us posted on your progress.
Thanks, Becky -- Becky Ligon HPC Admin Staff PVFS/OrangeFS Developer Clemson University 864-650-4065 > Hi Becky, > > Thanks for your quick reply. The /etc/pvfs2tab file was created normally, > or > else I couldn't run the pvfs2-ping successfully. > > The pvfs2-fs.conf was created by the pvfs2-genconfig without special > options > specified by me. I attached it as following. Thank you! > > ==================== > <Defaults> > UnexpectedRequests 50 > EventLogging none > EnableTracing no > LogStamp datetime > BMIModules bmi_tcp > FlowModules flowproto_multiqueue > PerfUpdateInterval 1000 > ServerJobBMITimeoutSecs 30 > ServerJobFlowTimeoutSecs 30 > ClientJobBMITimeoutSecs 300 > ClientJobFlowTimeoutSecs 300 > ClientRetryLimit 5 > ClientRetryDelayMilliSecs 2000 > PrecreateBatchSize 512 > PrecreateLowThreshold 256 > > StorageSpace /pvfs2-storage-space > LogFile /tmp/pvfs2-server.log > </Defaults> > > <Aliases> > Alias ip-10-17-23-121 tcp://ip-10-17-23-121:3334 > </Aliases> > > <Filesystem> > Name pvfs2-fs > ID 2069807062 > RootHandle 1048576 > FileStuffing yes > <MetaHandleRanges> > Range ip-10-17-23-121 3-4611686018427387904 > </MetaHandleRanges> > <DataHandleRanges> > Range ip-10-17-23-121 > 4611686018427387905-9223372036854775806 > </DataHandleRanges> > <StorageHints> > TroveSyncMeta yes > TroveSyncData no > TroveMethod alt-aio > </StorageHints> > </Filesystem> > ======================== > > > On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 6:11 AM, Becky Ligon <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Can you send me your pvfs2-fs.conf file and a copy of your /etc/pvfs2tab >> file? >> >> Becky >> -- >> Becky Ligon >> HPC Admin Staff >> PVFS/OrangeFS Developer >> Clemson University >> 864-650-4065 >> >> > Hi all, >> > >> > I set up the PVFS-2.8.2 with kernel version >> *2.6.35.11-83.9.amzn1.x86_64. >> > *I >> > run the 'make kmod' as well as 'make kmod_install' successfully after >> I >> > compiled the pvfs-2.8.2 source tree. Then I tried to add some mount >> point >> > to >> > the /etc/pvfs2tab in another machine. I insmod pvfs2.ko with messages >> > following. When I run 'lsmod', I saw pvfs2 module was just there. >> > ==================== >> > Message from syslogd@ip-10-17-18-247 at Apr 4 18:25:57 ... >> > kernel:[12187.461117] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP >> > Message from syslogd@ip-10-17-18-247 at Apr 4 18:25:57 ... >> > kernel:[12187.461117] last sysfs file: >> > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu15/cache/index2/shared_cpu_map >> > Message from syslogd@ip-10-17-18-247 at Apr 4 18:25:57 ... >> > kernel:[12187.461117] Stack: >> > Message from syslogd@ip-10-17-18-247 at Apr 4 18:25:57 ... >> > kernel:[12187.461117] Call Trace: >> > Message from syslogd@ip-10-17-18-247 at Apr 4 18:25:57 ... >> > kernel:[12187.461117] Code: e8 c9 fe ff ff c9 83 f8 01 0f 94 c0 0f b6 >> c0 >> > c3 >> > 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 55 48 89 e5 41 54 49 89 fc >> 53 >> 48 >> > 89 f3 <48> 83 3e 00 74 24 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 8b 73 18 4c 89 63 20 48 85 >> > Message from syslogd@ip-10-17-18-247 at Apr 4 18:25:57 ... >> > kernel:[12187.461117] CR2: 0000000000000003 >> > =================== >> > >> > And the dmesg is as following: >> > ==================== >> > [12187.461117] [<ffffffffa027d1ec>] pvfs2_proc_initialize+0x1c/0x30 >> > [pvfs2] >> > [12187.461117] [<ffffffffa028c1c5>] pvfs2_init+0x1c5/0x23c [pvfs2] >> > [12187.461117] [<ffffffffa028c000>] ? pvfs2_init+0x0/0x23c [pvfs2] >> > [12187.461117] [<ffffffff81002047>] do_one_initcall+0x37/0x1a0 >> > [12187.461117] [<ffffffff810818a2>] sys_init_module+0xb2/0x200 >> > [12187.461117] [<ffffffff8100ae82>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b >> > [12187.461117] Code: e8 c9 fe ff ff c9 83 f8 01 0f 94 c0 0f b6 c0 c3 >> 90 >> 90 >> > 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 55 48 89 e5 41 54 49 89 fc 53 48 >> 89 >> f3 >> > <48> 83 3e 00 74 24 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 8b 73 18 4c 89 63 20 48 85 >> > [12187.461117] RIP [<ffffffff810583ad>] sysctl_set_parent+0xd/0x40 >> > [12187.461117] RSP <ffff8805a7051dc8> >> > [12187.461117] CR2: 0000000000000003 >> > [12187.621903] ---[ end trace 9c2a971e5cf0a5c0 ]--- >> > [12187.628366] serial8250: too much work for irq4 >> > ===================== >> > >> > After that, I started the server/client respectively. Then I tried the >> > pvfs2-ping and it worked as expected. Then I tried in the command line >> to >> > mount it for POSIX-style use. But the mount command failed with error >> > message "mount: unknown filesystem type 'pvfs2'". I tried twice on two >> > different machines with no luck. I followed the quick start guide step >> by >> > step so that there should be something out of it I missed. >> > >> > Any idea will be highly appreciated. >> > >> > Best Regards. >> > -- >> > Mingliang Liu (åæ亮 in Chinese) >> > >> > PACMAN Group, Dept. of Computer Science & Technology >> > Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China >> > Tel: +86-136 1126 4251 (Mobile) >> > Email: [email protected] >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Pvfs2-users mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://www.beowulf-underground.org/mailman/listinfo/pvfs2-users >> > >> >> >> > > > -- > Mingliang Liu (åæ亮 in Chinese) > > PACMAN Group, Dept. of Computer Science & Technology > Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China > Tel: +86-136 1126 4251 (Mobile) > Email: [email protected] > _______________________________________________ Pvfs2-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.beowulf-underground.org/mailman/listinfo/pvfs2-users
