[PVFS-users] pvfs mounting problems with minimalistic kernel

[Rob Ross]

Hi Kaveh,

Can you ping between those nodes ok?

Thanks,

Rob

On Sun, 9 May 2004, Kaveh Moallemi wrote:

> Hello, I'm having some problems with mounting pvfs .... I'm currently using 
> pvfs-1.6.2 on linux-2.4.21 patched with bproc (3.2.6) on a 2 node test 
> cluster.  On the server side (10.0.0.1) everything works just fine, I can 
> start the mgr, iod and pvfsd programs and then mount /pvfs-meta without any 
> problems.  On the client side however, I can install the pvfs.o module and 
> run pvfsd but mounting fails:
> 
> 1) If I try:
> $mount 10.0.0.1:/pvfs-meta /mnt/pvfs -t pvfs
> I get:
> (inode.c, 340): pvfs_super_iget crapped out at ll_pvfs_lookup
> (inode.c, 196): pvfs_read_super aborting!
> mount: Mounting 10.0.0.1:/pvfs-meta on /mnt/pvfs failed: Invalid argument
> 
> 2) If I try:
> $mount.pvfs 10.0.0.1:/pvfs-meta /mnt/pvfs
> I get:
> Kernel does not support tcp: No such file or directory
> mount.pvfs: server 10.0.0.1:3000 not responding, giving up
> 
> Of course I've configured the kernel with TCP support (BProc uses TCP and it 
> works), so I really don't understand the error message.  I should mention 
> that the client is diskless and thus uses a very minimalistic kernel.  I 
> suspect that I'm missing something in the kernel configuration .... so I 
> would greatly appreciate any suggestions!
> 
> By the way, I'm sure that there is nothing wrong with the server since I can 
> mount pvfs from a third test machine (not diskless) on the same network.
> 
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