I am having a failure when trying to start an ost. I get a "/usr/sbin/lctl (20): error: setup: Not a directory" when an ost is being mounted. The strange thing is that I can e2fsck the device. I can even mount it as an ldiskfs partition. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions on where to start looking? Thanks! [root at abe-io4 tmp]# /etc/ha.d/resource.d/ostl4 start Starting ostl4: loading module: libcfs srcdir None devdir libcfs loading module: lnet srcdir None devdir lnet loading module: ksocklnd srcdir None devdir klnds/socklnd loading module: lvfs srcdir None devdir lvfs loading module: obdclass srcdir None devdir obdclass loading module: ptlrpc srcdir None devdir ptlrpc loading module: ost srcdir None devdir ost loading module: ldiskfs srcdir None devdir ldiskfs loading module: fsfilt_ldiskfs srcdir None devdir lvfs loading module: obdfilter srcdir None devdir obdfilter NETWORK: NET_abe-io4_lnet_2 NET_abe-io4_lnet_2_UUID lnet abe-io4-eth1 at tcp0 NETWORK: NET_abe-io4_lnet NET_abe-io4_lnet_UUID lnet abe-io4.ib at o2ib0 OSD: ostl4_1 ostl4_1_UUID obdfilter /dev/mapper/24l8 0 ldiskfs no 0 256 OST mount options: errors=remount-ro,extents,mballoc OSD: ostl4_2 ostl4_2_UUID obdfilter /dev/mapper/26l7 0 ldiskfs no 0 256 OST mount options: errors=remount-ro,extents,mballoc ! /usr/sbin/lctl (20): error: setup: Not a directory ostl4 [root at abe-io4 tmp]# [root at abe-io4 ~]# fdisk -l /dev/mapper/26l7 Disk /dev/mapper/26l7: 72.8 GB, 72870264832 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 8859 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes [root at abe-io4 tmp]# e2fsck -n -v --mdsdb /tmp/local_mdsdb --ostdb /tmp/ostdb_26l7 /dev/mapper/26l7 e2fsck 1.40.4.cfs1 (31-Dec-2007) /dev/mapper/26l7 lustre database creation, check forced. Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Pass 2: Checking directory structure Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity Pass 4: Checking reference counts Pass 5: Checking group summary information Pass 6: Acquiring information for lfsck OST: ''ostl4_2_UUID'' ost idx 4294967295: compat 0 rocomp 0 incomp 0 OST: num files = 17048 OST: last_id = 76392 33258 inodes used (0.37%) 150 non-contiguous inodes (0.5%) # of inodes with ind/dind/tind blocks: 14/0/0 997359 blocks used (5.61%) 0 bad blocks 1 large file 33224 regular files 24 directories 0 character device files 1 block device file 0 fifos 0 links 0 symbolic links (0 fast symbolic links) 0 sockets -------- 33249 files [root at abe-io4 tmp]# [root at abe-io4 ~]# cat /proc/mounts | grep ldiskfs /dev/mapper/26l7 /mnt ldiskfs rw 0 0 [root at abe-io4 ~]# df /mnt Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/26l7 68933584 1760652 63614816 3% /mnt [root at abe-io4 ~]# Chad -- Chad Kerner - ckerner at ncsa.uiuc.edu Systems Engineer, Storage Enabling Technologies National Center for Supercomputing Applications http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/~ckerner