Hi:
   I am installing lustre 1.5.95 on a small sun x4200 cluster running  
FC5 kernel version 2.6.15. I had some difficulty getting kernel  
patched and rpms compiled, but by reading discussion i was able to  
get over those problems. The problem now is i am testing the simplest  
scenario and it failes. I put mgs and mdt on node 1, called gg202.  
OST on the second node, called gg203. Then client on the third node,  
called gg204. All the mkfs and mount on these three nodes seems fine,  
and /proc/fs/lustre/devices seems ok as well. But after i mount the  
client at gg204 when try to copy sth to the mounted directory on  
gg204, the gg202 node, i.e., the mgs and mdt node, stops responding.  
I have to manually power it down. I can not find any useful  
information at gg201''s system log, and gg202 and gg203''s
system log
simply says connection lost. So now i am really confused. Thanks for  
the patience.
Dayong Huang
Center of Computation and Technology
Louisiana State University
On the MDT MGS node, gg202:
[root@gg202]# mkfs.lustre --fsname=mainfs --mdt --mgs --reformat /dev/ 
VolGroup00/MDT
    Permanent disk data:
Target:     mainfs-MDTffff
Index:      unassigned
UUID:
Lustre FS:  mainfs
Mount type: ldiskfs
Flags:      0x75
               (MDT MGS needs_index first_time update )
Persistent mount opts: errors=remount-ro,iopen_nopriv,user_xattr
Parameters:
device size = 224MB
formatting backing filesystem ldiskfs on /dev/VolGroup00/MDT
         target name  mainfs-MDTffff
         4k blocks     0
         options        -i 4096 -I 512 -q -O dir_index -F
mkfs_cmd = mkfs.ext2 -j -b 4096 -L mainfs-MDTffff  -i 4096 -I 512 -q - 
O dir_index -F /dev/VolGroup00/MDT
Writing CONFIGS/mountdata
[root@gg202]# mount -t lustre /dev/VolGroup00/MDT /mnt/mainfs/mdt/
[root@gg202]# cat /proc/fs/lustre/devices
   0 UP mgs MGS MGS 5
   1 UP mgc MGC192.168.1.102@tcp fe3d6e35-83cb-93bf-ea9d-ac3bfa796a6f 5
   2 UP mdt MDS MDS_uuid 3
   3 UP lov mainfs-mdtlov mainfs-mdtlov_UUID 4
   4 UP mds mainfs-MDT0000 mainfs-MDT0000_UUID 3
On the OST node, gg203:
[root@gg203]# mkfs.lustre --fsname=mainfs --ost --mgsnode=gg202@tcp0  
--reformat /dev/VolGroup00/OST2
    Permanent disk data:
Target:     mainfs-OSTffff
Index:      unassigned
UUID:
Lustre FS:  mainfs
Mount type: ldiskfs
Flags:      0x72
               (OST needs_index first_time update )
Persistent mount opts: errors=remount-ro,extents,mballoc
Parameters: mgsnode=192.168.1.102@tcp
device size = 20480MB
formatting backing filesystem ldiskfs on /dev/VolGroup00/OST2
         target name  mainfs-OSTffff
         4k blocks     0
         options        -J size=400 -i 16384 -I 256 -q -O dir_index -F
mkfs_cmd = mkfs.ext2 -j -b 4096 -L mainfs-OSTffff  -J size=400 -i  
16384 -I 256 -q -O dir_index -F /dev/VolGroup00/OST2
Writing CONFIGS/mountdata
[root@gg203]# mount -t lustre /dev/VolGroup00/OST2 /mnt/mainfs/ost2/
[root@gg203]# cat /proc/fs/lustre/devices
   0 UP mgc MGC192.168.1.102@tcp 3a498b4e-884e-ed25-ee0d-2eadd19789bc 5
   1 UP ost OSS OSS_uuid 3
   2 UP obdfilter mainfs-OST0000 mainfs-OST0000_UUID 7
On the client node, gg204:
[root@gg204]# mount -t lustre gg202@tcp0:/mainfs /mnt/testfs/
[root@gg204]# df
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-rootlv
                       39676508   9884128  27744380  27% /
/dev/sda1               194442     25009    159394  14% /boot
tmpfs                  4021556         0   4021556   0% /dev/shm
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-homelv
                       20642428   2754120  16839732  15% /home
192.168.1.102@tcp:/mainfs
                       20642428    455200  19138588   3% /mnt/testfs
[root@gg204]# cp /tmp/testfile /mnt/testfs/.
This call never returns and gg202 crashes.