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OCI: OCFS2 Filesystem on iSCSI device Fails to Mount on Boot

Applies To:

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Version N/A and later 

Linux x86-64 


Symptoms 

The OCFS2 filesystem fails to mount on boot, the following or similar messages are seen: 

Jan 03 11:50:24 <HOST> systemd[1]: ocfs2.mount mount process exited, code=exited status=1 
Jan 03 11:50:24 <HOST> systemd[1]: Failed to mount /ocfs2. 
Jan 03 11:50:24 <HOST> systemd[1]: Dependency failed for Remote File Systems. 
Jan 03 11:50:24 <HOST> systemd[1]: Job remote-fs.target/start failed with result 'dependency'. 
Jan 03 11:50:24 <HOST> systemd[1]: Unit ocfs2.mount entered failed state. 

 

Cause 

There can be issues in mounting OCFS2 filesystems if the underlying storage is presented as an iSCSI volume.

The problem is caused because

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