On 05/15/2012 12:03 PM, Johannes Schild wrote: > Hi, > > i try to set up the object-based layout with pnfs. > I am using the OSC-OSD as target. It works well and i can login. > Trying the scripts "do-*" from git://git.open-osd.org/open-osd.git the do-osd script works for me. The do-exofs doesnt, here i have some question: > > 1. Is the UUID in the do-exofs script optional? > No it is not optional > 2. If no how can i get it for my device? > Exactly! the ./do-exofs format command will set this for you, as well as mkfs.exofs the FS for you. > 3. It is mandatory to use raid-driver (raid456) in the script? Why? > What? where? Rrrr you are right. this is a very old tree. Let me see if I have something newer to push. It should all load automatically now. But yes the dependency on raid456.ko is built in. Though if you use raid=0 on the format command line it will not be used in run time. > > The error is: > mount -t exofs -o osdname=d2683732-c906-4ee1-9dbd-c10c27bb40df,pid=0x10000,_netdev /dev/osd0 /mnt/osd0/ > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/osd0, > missing codepage or helper program, or other error > In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try > dmesg | tail or so > > dmesg says: > exofs: Unable to mount exofs on (null) pid=0x0 err=-22 > Probably you forgot the "./do-exofs format" stage. Please read the script before, you might need to edit it. It is the stage that calls mkfs.exofs to make a new filesystem for you. (An OSD is a raw device that can host many filesystems each in it's own osd-partition. > > Thanks for answering my questions. > Regards > Johannes > Cheers Boaz -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html