topic Re: Ignite not releasing NFS mounts in Operating System - HP-UX

Ignite not releasing NFS mounts

dictum9 — Tue, 05 May 2009 14:33:29 GMT

After I take an image of a box, Ignite-UX seems to keep its NFS mount there. How can I make sure that Ignite releases the NFS mounts?

Re: Ignite not releasing NFS mounts

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 05 May 2009 16:14:53 GMT

Shalom,

You need to exclude NFS mounts from any Ignite images you take.

Ignite is designed to back up the system disk, not remote NFS mounts.

SEP

Re: Ignite not releasing NFS mounts

dictum9 — Tue, 05 May 2009 17:26:24 GMT

I did not express it clearly enough.

When you take an Ignite image, the client machine NFS-mounts the filesystem of the Ignite server. The client mounts /var/opt/ignite/clients filesystem and writes stuff to it.

The problem is that if the Ignite server gets rebooted, the client will get a hung filesystem. Its bdf will hang. Happened to me once.

Re: Ignite not releasing NFS mounts

Tim Nelson — Tue, 05 May 2009 19:02:29 GMT

What version of ignite are you running ?

95% of ignite problems get fixed with current releases. Current releases break the other 5% :0

Re: Ignite not releasing NFS mounts

Dennis Handly — Tue, 05 May 2009 19:17:39 GMT

>if the Ignite server gets rebooted, the client will get a hung filesystem.

You could have the filesystem automounted so that is typically unmounted most of the time.

Re: Ignite not releasing NFS mounts

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 05 May 2009 21:34:52 GMT

Shalom,

The problem is that if the Ignite server gets rebooted, the client will get a hung filesystem. Its bdf will hang. Happened to me once.

Well don't reboot the Ignite server.

If it owns the NFS share, a reboot is always going to make this happen.

Now if you relocate the NFS to say a NAS device or a share on an EMC or similar box, you can get around this.

SEP