[PVFS-users] Re: Newbie in PVFS. Unable to mount PVFS

[Don Porter]

You can use the pvfs-ping tool to ensure that the servers are up and
running.  If they are not, then you need to address that.

If they are, then your kernel somehow got in a bad state and you are
going to need to reboot the machine.  One thing to look at is whether or
not you configured your kernel to use a user-space or kernel space
daemon.  If you chose to use the userspace daemon, you will need to be
certain that you correctly started this daemon before mounting.

Best,
Don

On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 09:13 +0000, Ai Chee Sin wrote:
> hi,
> 
> I had tried to install PVFS 1.6.3. I had followed the user guide online till 
> step 5.2 Getting a client connected.
> When i entered [root at frontend-0/root]# mount.pvfs frontend-0:/pvfs-meta 
> /mnt/pvfs, the system stopped there for a very long time. I pressed Ctrl C 
> to stop the process, then entered [root at frontend-0/root]# mount.pvfs 
> frontend-0:/pvfs-meta /mnt/pvfs again and it returned:
> mount.pvfs: Invalid argument
> mount.pvfs: server 10.1.1.1 alive, but mount failed (invalid metadata 
> directory name?)
> 
> So i entered another command, [root at frontend-0/root]# /sbin/mount.pvfs 
> frontend-0:/pvfs-meta /mnt/pvfs again and it returned:
> mount.pvfs: server10.1.1.1 not responding, still trying
> mount.pvfs: server10.1.1.1 not responding, still trying
> mount.pvfs: server10.1.1.1 not responding, still trying
> mount.pvfs: server10.1.1.1:3000 not responding, giving up
> 
> What had happend???
> 
> aichee
> Student from Nanyang Polytechnic, Singapore
> 
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