[Pvfs2-users] Problem using pvfs2 commands to access directory

[Robert Latham]

On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 05:55:26PM +0100, Patrick Tuite wrote:
> (4) Searching for /mnt/pvfs2/ in pvfstab...
> 
>    PVFS2 servers: tcp://corona:3334
>    Storage name: pvfs2-fs
>    Local mount point: /mnt/pvfs2
> 
>    meta servers:
>    tcp://corona1:3334
> 
>    data servers:
>    tcp://corona1:3334
>    tcp://corona2:3334
>    tcp://corona3:3334
>    tcp://corona:3334

Yup, that's the problem.  

> <Aliases>
>         Alias corona tcp://corona1:3334
>         Alias corona1 tcp://corona2:3334
>         Alias corona2 tcp://corona3:3334
>         Alias corona3 tcp://corona:3334
> </Aliases>

another symptom, same cause.  

> Thanks for your help!

Thanks for the report.  No quick fix for this yet but we'll let you
know.  It's due to the way pvfs2-genconfig sorts hostnames.  In the
meantime, can you maybe add an alias for 'corona' called 'corona0' and
use that instead?

==rob

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Rob Latham
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