From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Manish Singh <manish.singh@oracle.com>
Date: Thu Jan 29 18:19:17 2004
Subject: [Ocfs2-devel] Re: Playing with OCFS2
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On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 03:21:58PM -0800, Villalovos, John L wrote:
> I just took the latest version of OCFS2 code from Subversions today.
> 
> I am using a Fedora Core 1 system with all updates applied.
> 
> I am using a Firewire Maxtor drive to put it on.  Currently only testing
> with one computer and one drive.
> 
> I was able to build the OCFS2 and OCFS-TOOLS components with no
> problems.
> 
> I copied the ocfs2.o module to my local /lib/modules... Directory.
> 
> I ran:
> 	mkfs.ocfs -F -b 128 -L ocfs-test -m /ocfs /dev/sda1
> 	(not sure why mkfs.ocfs wants to know where the partition will
> be mounted???)
> 
> I ran:
> 	ocfstool and created my /etc/ocfs.conf
> 
> I then ran:
> 	load_ocfs2 and it complained about ip_port_v2 missing.  So I
> created an ip_port_v2 entry with a value of 7002.
> 
> Re-ran:
> 	load_ocfs2 and the driver loaded.
> 
> I then tried to mount the volume:
> 	mount -t ocfs /dev/sda1 /ocfs
> 
> 	waited for awhile and it returned but no drive was mounted :(
> 
> So I'm not sure what I did wrong.
> 
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.

The filesystem type for OCFS2 is "ocfs2", not "ocfs". Not sure why it would
take a long time with "ocfs" though..

Try with "ocfs2" and see what happens.

-Manish