PFS mount and Oracle 7.3.4 CD!

[Duncan Edmonstone]

This is all very odd! One of the first things I do when configuring a server for Oracle is disable all the NFS daemons by setting the relevant flags to 0 in /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf (I'm not a fan of NFS), yet I never have any problems mounting Oracle CDs using PFS! I thought that PFS used various remote procedure calls and only depended on rpcbind, rather than any feature of NFS. All the rpcbind stuff is started /sbin/init.d/nfs.core regardless of what goes in /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf

Can someone put me straight here?

[Keith Lapidus]

The PFS mount on HP-UX is horrible. I would recommend using a Solaris box to mount the CD and NFS export it. Don't get me wrong, I hate Sun and Solaris, but HP really screwed up when they created this PFS abomination!

[Anthony deRito]

PFS uses RPC services and it seems as though it does not register itself with the portmapper correctly. Check it out...

#rpcinfo -p

150001 2 udp 776 pcnfsd
150001 1 tcp 779 pcnfsd
150001 2 tcp 779 pcnfsd
536870917 3 udp 680
536870917 3 tcp 682
131078 4 udp 683
131078 4 tcp 686
100003 2 udp 2049 nfs

The odd ones are used for PFS and they have a strange looking program number. Not sure if this has anything to do with it...
I dump the Oracle cd to a filesystem with cpio and install it from disk. That is if you can mount it and dump the contents before it hangs!

Tony