topic Re: extendfs issue in Operating System - HP-UX

extendfs issue

Prokopets — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 07:12:47 GMT

Hi!
I have an issue with extendfs. First i created a 2.0Tb volume and a vxfs filesystem on it and after some time i needed an additional space. I unmounted filesystem (i have no OnlineJFS license) and ran lvextend - everything was ok. But when i ran extendfs i got this error:
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# /usr/sbin/extendfs -F vxfs /dev/vg02/rlvol02_2
vxfs extendfs: V-3-20000: extendfs: You don't have a license to Extend a file-system to size > 2147483648 sectors (2048 GB)

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So, as i can see, hp-ux cannot extend filesystems to >2Tb without additional fee (greediness is not good, but... anyway). My question is: is there any workaround?

Re: extendfs issue

Michal Kapalka (mikap) — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 07:49:59 GMT

hi,

check this :

http://docs.hp.com/en/6054/LVM_Limits_White_Paper_V4.pdf

if you have a HP-UX version 11.11 / 11.23, this could be the reason.

mikap

Re: extendfs issue

Duncan Edmonstone — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 07:51:42 GMT

What OS version? What version of VxFS? IIRC on 11.11 LVM would let you create LVs of >2TB, but you couldn't address anything beyond 2TB anyway... so even if you had OJFS if this is 11.11 it still might not work...

>> (greediness is not good, but... anyway). My question is: is there any workaround?

Create a seperate filesystem? Why do you need one filesystem of >2TB?

HTH

Duncan

Re: extendfs issue

Juan Antonio Llano — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 07:53:44 GMT

seems like there is no work around.

What os version are you on 11.23?

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1177601

Re: extendfs issue

Prokopets — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 09:26:15 GMT

I'm using 11.31B and vxfs version 6.

Re: extendfs issue

Prokopets — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 09:37:32 GMT

Hmmm.... I'm not sure about vxfs version, but SMH shows this:

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Source /dev/vg02/lvol02_2
Mount Directory /data3
Version 6
Current Mount Options nosuid,ioerror=mwdisable,delaylog,
nodatainlog,dev=80001002
Mount Options for /etc/fstab nosuid
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Philipp.

Re: extendfs issue

likid0 — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:04:16 GMT

version 6 is the layout of the FS, you could be using veritas4.1 or 5

Re: extendfs issue

chris huys_4 — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 21:50:27 GMT

Hi Philipp,

There is no workaround.

You could offcourse always open a call with HP and ask for an enhancement request to have the onlinejfs license not needed for extending a >2TB lun, on basis of .. I suppose you could find a reason. ;)

Greetz,
Chris

Re: extendfs issue

Prokopets — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 08:39:51 GMT

Thanks for your answers, guys!

Regards,
Philipp.