pfs_mount

[John Kane_3]

I am getting a timeout waiting for the mount point when I try to mount an Oracle cd with pfs_mount. I have followed the procedure of starting pfs_mountd followed by pfsd. The version of pfs_mount is from 1998. Where do I find an updated version? The cd will mount with a normal mount command. I have tried 2 sets of cds.

[Pete Randall]

John,

Do yourself a huge favor and never use pfs_mount again. Search the forums for "Rock Ridge" and you will come up with many threads telling you how to install the patches which allow you to use normal mount commands on pfs cd's. Your life will be changed forever - trust me.


Pete

[Paul Sperry]

PFS is flakey.

Use Rocky Ridge instead

For 11.11
PHCO_25841
PHKL_26269
PHKL_28025

Then mount
mount -F cdfs -o rr /dev/dsk/cxtydz

You wont have any more time outs :)

[Patrick Wallek]

If you are running HP-UX 11.0 or 11.11 (aka 11i) then you need to look for the latest mount patches. These will include extensions to the mount command to allow you to natively mount Rock Ridge CDs, which the Oracle CDs are.

To mount an Oracle CD once you have these patches installed you would do:

# mount -o ro,rr /dev/dsk/c?t?d? /cdrom

I will try to locate the appropriate patch numbers for you. Note that the patches will require a reboot after they are installed.

[Patrick Wallek]

For HP-UX 11.0 you will need:

PHCO_26449
http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/patchDetail.do?patchid=PHCO_26449&context=hpux:800:11:00

PHKL_26450
http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/patchDetail.do?patchid=PHKL_26450&context=hpux:800:11:00

PHKL_28060
http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/patchDetail.do?patchid=PHKL_28060&context=hpux:800:11:00


For HP-UX 11.11 you will need:

PHCO_25841
http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/patchDetail.do?patchid=PHCO_25841&context=hpux:800:11:11

PHKL_26269
http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/patchDetail.do?patchid=PHKL_26269&context=hpux:800:11:11

PHKL_28025
http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/patchDetail.do?patchid=PHKL_28025&context=hpux:800:11:11

[blal]

Hi

Please check that your nfs server is running.
For pfs mount you should have NFS services up.

You can start NFS server process by

/sbin/init.d/nfs.server start.


regards,
baiju