[Linux-cluster] Error creating gfs fs

Derek Anderson danderso at redhat.com
Fri Oct 8 20:36:31 UTC 2004


On Friday 08 October 2004 15:28, Derek Anderson wrote:
> On Friday 08 October 2004 07:50, eltonmou at yahoo.com.br wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > What is happening?
> >
> > #mkfs.gfs -p lock_dlm /dev/hda1
> > #mkfs.gfs: locktable error: missing colon in the locktable
>
> Elton,
>
> You must provide gfs_mkfs with a locktable name, a number of journals to
> create, and a lock protocol.
>
> Example:
> gfs_mkfs -t mycluster:data1 -j 5 -p lock_gulm /dev/sda1
>
> Where "mycluster" is the clustername from cluster.ccs:cluster/name, "data1"
> is a unique GFS filesystem name, and "5" is the number of journals to
> create (make one for each node that will mount the filesystem).

Sorry, had version 6.0 on the brain.  The above still applies, but the 
clustername comes from resource/name in your cluster.xml file and you can use 
the lock_dlm lock protocol.

>
> Please refer to gfs_mkfs(8) for more detailed information.
>
> Hope this helps:
> Derek
>
> > or
> >
> > #gfs_mkfs -p lock_dlm -t EXPORT_ELTON  /dev/hda1
> > #gfs_mkfs: locktable error: missing colon in the locktable
> >
> > or
> >
> > #gfs_mkfs -p lock_dlm -t EXPORT_GAROUPA  /dev/sda7
> > #gfs_mkfs: locktable error: missing colon in the locktable
> >
> > I will appreciate any help.
> >
> > T ks in advance
> > Elton
> >
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