{"id":2930,"date":"2014-03-10T12:58:39","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T12:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/2014\/03\/10\/cannot-mount-vmfs-version-5-on-linux-collection-of-common-programming-errors\/"},"modified":"2014-03-10T12:58:39","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T12:58:39","slug":"cannot-mount-vmfs-version-5-on-linux-collection-of-common-programming-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/2014\/03\/10\/cannot-mount-vmfs-version-5-on-linux-collection-of-common-programming-errors\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannot mount vmfs version 5 on linux-Collection of common programming errors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know I can mount a vmfs version 3 on linux using vmfs-tools.<\/p>\n<p>First I get the iscsi connection using open-iscsi<\/p>\n<p>I then check in my partition tool to which virtual drive the iscsi connection has been mapped.<\/p>\n<pre><code>  Expert Partitioner                                                       \n\n   ?System View?????????????????????????Available Storage on serviceseta\n   ????serviceseta                     ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????\n   ? ?+?Hard Disks                     ??Device   ?     Size?F?Enc?Type               ?FS Type?Label?Mount Point               ?\n   ? ???RAID                           ??\/dev\/sda ?  2.00 TB? ?   ?VMware-Virtual disk?       ?     ?                          ?\n   ? ???Volume Management              ??\/dev\/sda1?195.00 MB? ?   ?Linux native       ?Ext4   ?     ?\/boot                     ?\n   ? ???Crypt Files                    ??\/dev\/sda2?  4.00 GB? ?   ?Linux swap         ?Swap   ?     ?swap                      ?\n   ? ???Device Mapper                  ??\/dev\/sda3?  2.00 TB? ?   ?Linux native       ?Ext4   ?     ?\/                         ?\n   ? ???NFS                            ??\/dev\/sdb ?  1.56 TB? ?   ?IET-VIRTUAL-DISK   ?       ?     ?                          ?\n   ? ???BTRFS                          ??\/dev\/sdb1?  1.56 TB? ?   ?unknown            ?       ?     ?                          ?\n   ? ???TMPFS                          ??\/dev\/sdd ?  7.52 TB? ?   ?IET-VIRTUAL-DISK   ?       ?     ?                          ?\n   ? ???Unused Devices                 ??\/dev\/sdd1?  7.52 TB? ?   ?Linux native       ?       ?     ?                          ?\n   ????Installation Summary            ??tmpfs    ?498.27 MB? ?   ?TMPFS              ?TmpFS  ?     ?\/dev\/shm                  ?\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>OK I can see there&#8217;s two IET virtual disks and I can tell which is which from the size.<br \/>\nSo I know I need to mount <code>\/dev\/sbd1<\/code> and <code>\/dev\/sdd1<\/code> somehow.<\/p>\n<p>One of these disks (extends actually) is VMFS3, the other is VMFS5.<\/p>\n<p>I can mount the VMFS3 using<\/p>\n<pre><code>vmfs-fuse \/dev\/sdb1 \/mnt\/opensuse1600gb\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>However if I try the same using the big storage<\/p>\n<pre><code>vmfs-fuse \/dev\/sdd1 \/mnt\/opensuse7700gb\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>I get<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Error stat()ing &#8216;\/dev\/ssd1&#8217;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If I then try<\/p>\n<pre><code>debugvmfs \/dev\/sdd1 df\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>I get<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>VMFS: Unsupported version 5<br \/>\nUnable to open device\/file &#8220;\/dev\/sdd1&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Is there some tool that supports mounting vmfs5?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know I can mount a vmfs version 3 on linux using vmfs-tools. First I get the iscsi connection using open-iscsi I then check in my partition tool to which virtual drive the iscsi connection has been mapped. Expert Partitioner ?System View?????????????????????????Available Storage on serviceseta ????serviceseta ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ? ?+?Hard Disks ??Device ? Size?F?Enc?Type ?FS Type?Label?Mount [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}