Since I have no idea about you guys OS version. From my version, RH5.4, system is using gfs2 kernel module, so I guess I have to use mkfs.gfs2 to create gfs2 file system. However, I didn't see any RH5.4 document pointing this(or I missed it out). If you guys have the same configuration, that means GFS tools is unstable because the only change I did is using different command. Same as the problem I encountered using lvcreate, on the first day it always hangs up, but in next morning, it executed successfully without any changes. It sounds impossible but this is the truth. [root@wplccdlvm445 gfs]# lsmod |grep -i gfs gfs2 347529 2 lock_dlm configfs 28753 2 dlm On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Ian Hayes <cthulhucalling@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 10:44 PM, Gordan Bobic <gordan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Diamond Li wrote: >>> >>> after I use mkfs.gfs2, it works. However, I did not see any document >>> to mention this command, always gfs_mkfs. >> >> I'm not sure what you're doing differntly (you omitted the FS creation >> command in your previous email), but this works just fine for me: >> >> gfs_mkfs -j 2 -p lock_dlm -t test:root /dev/hdb >> mount /mnt/gfs >> >> The fstab line is: >> /dev/hdb /mnt/gfs gfs defaults,noatime,nodiratime 0 0 > > > I had a similar problem in my Redhat Clustering and Storage Management class > the other week. I believe the problem was with a couple of mistakes I made > while playing around in one of the labs. I know once it was because I was > trying to mount the block device instead of the logical volume. > >> in my humble opnion, redhat has a log way to provide real enterprise >> solution, both from software quality and documentation. > >> >> There doesn't seem to be enough in this thread to persuade me that the >> cause of problems isn't user error. :) > > IIRC, gfs2 is still under development and considered experimental. There's > tons of documentation for production-quality GFS and I imagine once gfs2 > gets more mainlined, this will be the case also. > > -- > Linux-cluster mailing list > Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster > -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
