topic Re: pfs_mount in Operating System - HP-UX

pfs_mount

Ash_4 — Tue, 20 Aug 2002 08:28:41 GMT

Hi,
How to mount remote server CD-rom on local server using PFS_MOUNT.

Thanks.
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Re: pfs_mount

Leif Halvarsson_2 — Tue, 20 Aug 2002 08:34:11 GMT

This is from "man pfs_mount"

To mount a CD-ROM disk:

pfs_mount /dev/rdsk/c0t6d0 /cd-rom

To mount a remote file system:

pfs_mount serv:/cd-rom /cd-rom

To fake an entry for iso9660 on /cd-rom:

pfs_mount -f -t iso9660 /dev/rdsk/c0t6d0 /cd-rom

To hard mount a remote file system:

pfs_mount -o hard serv:/cd-rom /cd-rom

Re: pfs_mount

YLTan — Tue, 20 Aug 2002 08:35:13 GMT

If you want to mount an ISO 9660 CDROM on HP-UX or a ISO 9660 CDROM with RockRidge
Interchange Format you have to start pfs_mountd and pfsd.

# /usr/sbin/pfs_mountd &
[3] 1969
# /usr/sbin/pfsd &
[4] 1970

Edit or create the file /etc/pfs_fstab
/dev/dsk/c0t4d0 /ISO_CDROM pfs-iso9660 xlat=unix 0 0
/dev/dsk/c0t4d0 /ISO_RR_CDROM pfs-rrip xlat=unix 0 0

Create the dirs, if they don't exist

# ls -dl /ISO*
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4 Apr 2 20:44 ISO_CDROM
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4 Apr 2 20:44 ISO_RR_CDROM

Now it is easy to mount ISO CDROMs

# pfs_mount /ISO_CDROM

# ls -l /ISO_CDROM
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4488 May 6 1988 cdsample

# pfs_umount /ISO_CDROM
Or with long filenames# pfs_mount /ISO_RR_CDROM

# ls -l /ISO_RR_CDROM
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4488 Nov 5 19:00 Copyright
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 1469 Oct 13 19:01 pictures_from_susi

One thing we have found out about pfs_mount is, DO NOT exit the session you start the
daemons with, until you are COMPLETLY finished! Once you finish installing the software,
return to the original session, window and perform the "pfs_umount". Then if you wish,
you can kill the daemons you started. (next reboot will take care of this too)
List them by performing a "ps", then kill them from the highest process ID on down.

Re: pfs_mount

Justo Exposito — Tue, 20 Aug 2002 08:41:49 GMT

Hi Ash,

VERY IMPORTANT THING!!

When unmount the cd, use the pfs_umount command and not umount, this is because if you use umount instead pfs_umount you will have a lot of problems to extract the cd from your box.

Regards,

Justo.

Re: pfs_mount

Carlos Fernandez Riera — Tue, 20 Aug 2002 08:43:41 GMT

pfs_mount is a source of problems ...!!
Please see :

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xf489107d277ad611abdb0090277a778c,00.html

Re: pfs_mount

Wodisch_1 — Tue, 20 Aug 2002 17:56:32 GMT

Hi Ash,

since the advent of the new Rock Ridge patches to "mount(1m)" there is simply no need to use PFS any further!
Install the patches PHKL_26448, PHCO_26449, and PHKL_26450 and then use good old "mount(1m)" (say, your CD-ROM device is /dev/dsk/c0t0d0):

mkdir /cdrom
mount -o rr /dev/dsk/c0t0d0 /cdrom
# ... work ...
umount /cdrom

HTH,
Wodisch

Re: pfs_mount

MANOJ SRIVASTAVA — Tue, 20 Aug 2002 18:25:02 GMT

Hi Ash

A. Perform these steps on the local system:

1. nohup /usr/sbin/pfs_mountd &

2. nohup /usr/sbin/pfsd &

3. Add the filesystem to /etc/pfs_fstab

4. Add the filesystem to /etc/pfs_exports

5. pfs_exportfs -a

6. pfs_mount /cdrom

B. Perform these steps on the remote system:

1. nohup /usr/sbin/pfs_mountd &

2. nohup /usr/sbin/pfsd &

3. pfs_mount -o xlat=unix remotesystemA:/cdrom /localmnt_pnt

you can look at this document
http://support1.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=200000032087697

Manoj Srivastava

Re: pfs_mount

Geetha Alagappan — Wed, 21 Aug 2002 15:59:44 GMT

Ash,
Please check these two documents.

http://support2.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000048194521

http://support2.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000062684149

Geetha.