October 01, 2004 (technical)

Configuring PVFS on Obsidian

following instructions from the appendix in http://www.scalablesys.com/training/1-4-RocksAdmin.swf

  1. ensure /pvfs-meta exists

  2. on frontend run "mkmgrconf"

    The inputs i used:
    /pvfs-meta
    root
    root
    777
    frontend-0
    3000
    comp-pvfs-0-0, comp-pvfs-0-1, comp-pvfs-0-2, comp-pvfs-0-3, comp-pvfs-0-4
    7000

  3. on the frontend run "/etc/init.d/mgr restart"

    This spat out errors:

    Stopping PVFS daemon: FAILED
    Starting PVFS daemon: Coult not setup device /dev/pvfsd
    (pvfsd.c, 684): Did you remember to load the pvfs module?
    (pvfsd.c, 453): pvfsd: setup_pvfsdev() failed

    I then ran "/sbin/lsmod" and there was no pvfs module so i attempted "/sbin/insmod pvfs"

    This spat out the same errors as before

    BUT - performing a "ps aux |grep mgr" revealed that a /usr/sbin/mgr process was indeed running

  4. According to https://lists.sdsc.edu/pipermail/npaci-rocks-discussion/2004-January/004195.html it looks like there are issues with the PVFS kernel module and the Opterons running rocks 3.1<

Posted by xntrik at October 1, 2004 03:36 PM | TrackBack