Hi Yves - Can you send us your pvfs.conf file?
Kyle Schochenmaier On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Yves Revaz <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear list, > > I'm facing the following strange problem with orangefs. > I've just installed orangefs-2.8.5 for a client machine, > and I want to mount a file system via IB. > The client and the server does not share any ethernet connection, > but are only wired via IB. > In order to mount the parallel file system, I use, as usual the following > command : > > mount -t pvfs2 ib://10.149.1.1:3335/pvfs2-fs /SCRATCH > > but here, I get: > > mount: Not a directory > > Here, 10.149.1.1 is the IP infiniband address of the server, who responds > via ping. > Interestingly, the mount command works if I use another pvfs server which, > in addition > to an IB connection has also an ethernet connection with the client. > > So, I suspect that at some point, in order to mount pvfs, it is necessary > that the client > and server being wired with an ethernet connection even if the file system > will be shared > with IB. > > I'm I correcte ? > Is there a way to share pvfs without ethernet connection ? > > Thanks in advance, > > > yves > > > > # compilation > > ./configure --prefix /opt/orangefs-2.8.5 --with-openib=/usr > --without-bmi-tcp > -with-kernel=/usr/src/linux-2.6.22.9-clustervision-192_cvos3.1/ > make > make kmod > > # lunch the server > > insmod /cvos/shared/apps/orangefs-2.8.5/src/kernel/linux-2.6/pvfs2.ko > /cvos/shared/apps/orangefs-2.8.5/src/apps/kernel/linux/pvfs2-client -p > /cvos/shared/apps/orangefs-2.8.5/src/apps/kernel/linux/pvfs2-client-core > > > > > -- > (o o) > --------------------------------------------oOO--(_)--OOo------- > Dr. Yves Revaz > Laboratory of Astrophysics > Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) > Observatoire de Sauverny Tel : ++ 41 22 379 24 28 > 51. Ch. des Maillettes Fax : ++ 41 22 379 22 05 > 1290 Sauverny e-mail : [email protected] > SWITZERLAND Web : http://www.lunix.ch/revaz/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > 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
