Re: [Linux-cluster] Problem with GFS mounting

[David Teigland <teigland redhat com>]

On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 11:38:14AM +0200, Agnieszka Kuka?owicz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have problem mounting GFS filesystem.
> The filesystem was created like this:
> gfs_mkfs -t cluster_name:name -j 12 -p lock_dlm /dev/storage_gfs/name
> 
> After that I tried to mount the filesystem:
> 
> mount.gfs /dev/storage_gfs/name /mnt
> 
> But I get:
> 
> Oct 18 09:10:46 d1 kernel: Trying to join cluster "lock_dlm",
> "new_cluster:zoom_data"
> Oct 18 09:10:46 d1 kernel: Joined cluster. Now mounting FS...
> Oct 18 09:10:46 d1 kernel: GFS: fsid=cluster_name:name.4294967295: can't
> mount journal #4294967295
> Oct 18 09:10:46 d1 kernel: GFS: fsid=cluster_name:name.4294967295: there
> are only 12 journals (0 - 11)
> 
> I don't know why it happens. Do you have any suggestions?

This happens because mount(8) can't find mount.gfs, which is generally at
/sbin/mount.gfs.

Dave