Mounting of a gfs2 filesystem fails with the error: `mount: unknown filesystem type 'gfs2'`

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Issue

Mounting of a gfs2 filesystem fails with the error: mount: unknown filesystem type 'gfs2'

2018-07-20T11:28:23.637087-04:00 node42 kernel: request_module: runaway loop modprobe fs-gfs2
2018-07-20T11:28:23.638555-04:00 node42 Filesystem(clusterfs_apps)[30948]: ERROR: Couldn't mount filesystem /dev/mapper/rtvg-apps on /apps
2018-07-20T11:28:23.642490-04:00 node42 lrmd[794]:  notice: clusterfs_apps_start_0:30948:stderr [ mount: unknown filesystem type 'gfs2' ]
2018-07-20T11:28:23.837087-04:00 node42  kernel: GFS2 installed

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 (with the High Availability Add On and Resilient Storage Add Ons)
  • A Global Filesystem 2(gfs2)

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