PFS_MOUNT PROBLEMS WITH ORACLE CD

[patrick_119]

Hi,

I am having a BIG problem with an Oracle Installation on a rp5470 running HP Ux 11.11. The mounting of the Oracle CD's is the headache. Ultimately found out that we need to use the 'pfs_mount' command. Created the /etc/pfs_fstab and started the pfs_mountd and pfds deamons and was able to mount the first cd and copy it. after that i used the command 'pfs_umount -v -a -c' to umount the cd and close all files.

The problem is now i am unable to mount the next cd with the 'pfs_mount'. message appears 'NFS Stale extent giving up on cdrom' . I killed the pfs*.rpc processes as per forum advice and then tried the 'pfs_mount /cdrom' command. still does not work. now i get the message 'NFS server not responding, still trying' . any other commands also don't work. had to reboot the server. don't know how to resolve this problem. the server is brand new loade with sept. 2003 OS and latest patch kit. HELP HELP HELP

Thanks very much

Patrick

[Robert-Jan Goossens · Accepted solution]

Hi Patrick,

Check if you got these patches installed.

My CD-ROM doesn't show what I expect
It can be an Oracle CD-ROM, or a CD created on Windows, or whereever they used Rock Ridge extensions. Long names are truncated or show upper case only. Oracle tells you to use pfs_mount.

Do not use pfs_mount!. Install the Rock-Ridge extension patches instead and never worry about these problems. For HP-UX 11.00 you will need forget all about PFS and install PHKL_26448 (now superceded by PHKL_28060), PHCO_26449, and PHKL_26450 to have HP-UX recognize those file systems automatically on mount! For HP-UX 11.11 (11i) you need PHCO_25841, PHKL_26269, and PHKL_25760.

No need thereafter to use -o cdfs to mount anymore, provided you enter the CD drive in /etc/fstab like this:

/dev/cd0 /cdrom cdfs ro,rr,noauto 0 0

regards,

Robert-Jan.

[Stefan Farrelly]

you dont need to use pfs_mount anymore as long as you use the patches listed. If you still have problems ive found the oracle Cd's to sometimes be of poor quality, we have to load them on a newish PC and copy over or request a new set from Oracle.

[patrick_119]

Thanks a million Robert, Stefan. I found it The HP Ux 11.11 september 2003 OS version comes ready and the mount command supports RockRidge. The command is :

mount -F cdfs -e -o ro,rr device_file /cdrom

It worked like a dream. This forum is a miracle for beginners like me. Thank you guys.

Regards

Patrick

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[Mei Jiao]

Just found that PHKL_25760 is being superseded by PHKL_28025.