pfs_mount

[Greg Butler]

I am trying to make a cdrom drive located on and hpux 11 box visable to another hpux box. I
have the oracle cd pfs_mounted on the host box and need to know what command(s) are necessary to share the drive and install from it. Thanks in advance for any help posted.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

Take a look at:

# KBAN00000252 (PFS to mount Oracle, Rockridge and most PC formatted CD-ROM 11.x)

or:

# KBAN00000197 (PFS to mount Oracle, Rockridge and most PC formatted CD-ROM 10.x)

...JRF...

[James A. Donovan]

You need to use the pfs_exportfs (see man pfs_exportfs) command to export your mounted cdrom, the load pfs_mountd and pfsd on the client you want to have access to that cdrom.

[Greg Butler]

Thanks. I manually inserted the filesystem in both /etc/pfs_exports and /etc/pfs_xtab and then pfs_mount'ed on the client and all seems
fine. Any risks in this approach or suggestions for a better one ?

[James A. Donovan]

Just be careful not to eject the cdrom while any clients have it mounted. You'll start getting very annoying messages about NFS Servers not responding....

[Shannon Petry]

Maybe I can attach this....
Anyway, this attachment is some boot scripts I wrote to enable the pfs daemons at boot time. They extract to ./etc/rc.config.d/pfs ./sbin/init.d/pfs and ./sbin/rc3.d/something i forgot now anyway, but the rc3.d is just a link to the script in init.d. If you trust me, just
cd /
tar xvf pfs_startup.tar

The biggest problem most people have with pfs is starting and stopping the daemons in the correct order.

Anyway, if anyone needs them, email me.

Shannon

[Bruce Regittko_1]

Hi,

One minor addendum to Shannon's attachment: You may also want to put a kill link in /sbin/rc1.d so that the pfs service gets shutoff when transitioning to run level 1.

ln -s /sbin/init.d/pfs /sbin/rc1.d/K099.pfs

--Bruce