[Lustre-discuss] clean unmounting of OST with external journal

2011-03-06 Thread Samuel Aparicio
I notice the following behaviour on a test system while setting up init.d scripts to allow clean shutdown and re-start of an OSS (lustre 1.8.4) format an OST with an external journal. The external journal is located on a raid10 array connected to one of the network interfaces (aoe). the OST

Re: [Lustre-discuss] clean unmounting of OST with external journal

2011-03-06 Thread David Dillow
On Sun, 2011-03-06 at 17:43 -0800, Samuel Aparicio wrote: I am not sure why this is happening. The external raid partitions of relevance are all presented under the same /dev/ device when they are stopped/re-started. I don't think I've seen the exact messages you've produced, but I have seen

Re: [Lustre-discuss] clean unmounting of OST with external journal

2011-03-06 Thread Oleg Drokin
Hello! On Mar 6, 2011, at 8:43 PM, Samuel Aparicio wrote: now an attempt to re-mount the OST fails with LDISKFS-fs (md14): failed to open journal device unknown-block(152,225): -6 an e2fsck fixes this external superblock [root@OST2 ~]# e2fsck -j /dev/etherd/e9.24p1 /dev/md14 e2fsck

Re: [Lustre-discuss] clean unmounting of OST with external journal

2011-03-06 Thread Samuel Aparicio
i just confirmed this is what is happening: the minor number changes after a network/driver reload. I will have to look into the mechanics to see if this can be made fixed. ... don't see a journal_dev option in mount.lustre although the path to the device is hardcoded at mkfs time ... is the

Re: [Lustre-discuss] clean unmounting of OST with external journal

2011-03-06 Thread Johann Lombardi
On Sun, Mar 06, 2011 at 07:20:32PM -0800, Samuel Aparicio wrote: ... don't see a journal_dev option in mount.lustre although the path to the device is hardcoded at mkfs time ... Although the -o journal_dev=0xMMmm option is not documented in the man page, it should still work with