[Pvfs2-users] PVFS2 Installation

[Rob Ross]

We should fix that misleading server message. -- Rob

Robert Latham wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 10:44:40AM -0500, Jeff Pummill wrote:
>> Rob,
>>
>> It's kinda weird how the -r is behaving...
>>
>> [root at pvfs2-meta-server-0-0 sbin]# ./pvfs2-server /etc/pvfs2-fs.conf 
>> /etc/pvfs2-server.conf-pvfs2-meta-server-0-0 -r
>> [15:39:45.817880] PVFS2 Server version 1.1.0 starting.
>>
>> [root at pvfs2-meta-server-0-0 sbin]# ./pvfs2-server /etc/pvfs2-fs.conf 
>> /etc/pvfs2-server.conf-pvfs2-meta-server-0-0 -f
>> [15:39:50.890118] PVFS2 Server version 1.1.0 starting.
>>
>> [root at pvfs2-meta-server-0-0 sbin]# ./pvfs2-server /etc/pvfs2-fs.conf 
>> /etc/pvfs2-server.conf-pvfs2-meta-server-0-0
>> [15:40:00.040960] PVFS2 Server version 1.1.0 starting.
>> [15:40:00.044211] Error: BMI_sockio_bind_sock: Address already in use
>> [15:40:00.044667] Error: tcp_server_init() failure.
>> [15:40:00.044900] Error: BMI_initialize: Address already in use
>> [15:40:00.045076] Error: Could not initialize server interfaces; aborting.
>> [15:40:00.045219] Error: Could not initialize server; aborting.
>>
>> The first time thru, I just ran the -r option because it always told me 
>> that the server was starting. I just assumed that it did the other two 
>> steps because of it's behavior when I would execute it...
> 
> You're absolutely right: based on that message you'd think the server
> was still running.  Sorry for the confusion there.
> 
>> Thoughts?
> 
> Now that you've re-created the storage spaces, kill the pvfs2-server
> that's running and start it again on all the nodes.  
> 
>> Regarding the pvfs2tab files, as I have 24 compute nodes...I will divide 
>> them up and assign 4 compute nodes per I/O server using the appropriate 
>> hostname in each pvfs2tab file.
> 
> Sounds good!  
> 
> ==rob
>