Cannot create vxfs FS through SAM

[Scott Howell]

For some reason I cannot create vxfs filesystems through sam using the lvm. I can still create vxfs fs's using mkfs on a logical volume and modifying /etc/fstab.

[Denver Osborn]

What does it do when you try to create a filesystem? Do you get any errors?

If VxFS isn't showing as an option I'd download and install the latest SAM patch for a fix.

HP-UX 11.0 - PHCO_21187
HP-UX 10.20 - PHCO_21186

Hope this helps
-denver

[Bill Hassell]

When you create a logical volume, there is a dialog box for the intended purpose of the volume (ie, swap space, filesystem, etc). Under the filesystem choice there will be a filesystem type. This assumes you are using 10.xx or higher. vxfs was not available on earlier (and obsolete) versions of HP-UX.

[Scott Howell]

In looking at the sam log I found an error about it could not find host name while it was trying to execute rpcinfo -p . I had my DNS configured wrong and it was keeping LVM from configuring vxfs. Whn I configured dns correctly it started working. I mis configured dns again using set_parms it see if that was really the problem and it was. Is there any reason why sam would not work with vxfs if dns is not configured correctly???

[Patrick Wallek]

I think that may be a shorcoming of SAM. It apparently relies heavily on being able to resolve the hostname of the system it's being run on. Maybe this is some sort of fail-safe. Who knows.

I suspect that if you create the filesystem from the command line with lvcreate, lvextend, etc. that it would work fine.