vxfs mount: option not supported on this version of vxfs.

[Adam Noble]

Hi all,

We have a Serviceguard SAP cluster. I want to set the mount option mincache=direct for a number of filesystems. I changed the package control script and tested on the primary node and all was ok. I then attempted to failover and all the filesystems failed with the error:-

vxfs mount: option not supported on this version of vxfs.

The thing is I thought they were both running JFS 3.3 and both have online JFS.

OnlineJFS B.11.11 Online features of the VxFS File System

OnlineJFS B.11.11.03.03 Online features of the VxFS File System

The second software listing on the server that does mount ok does appear slightly different.

Has anyone seen this before.

Cheers

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

mincache=direct has been supported for OnlineJFS long before version 3.3 so that is not the problem. I suspect that you have lost all OnlineJFS capabilities on this node. Have you patched your system so that the June '07 OnlineJFS license expiration didn't bite you? What is the output of "vxlicense -p"?

[Geoff Wild]

Sounds like the advanced features of onlinejfs are NOT enabled anymore....

# vxlicense -p

Should see:
vrts:vxlicense: INFO: Feature name: HP_OnlineJFS [50]
vrts:vxlicense: INFO: Number of licenses: 1 (non-floating)
vrts:vxlicense: INFO: Expiration date: No expiration date
vrts:vxlicense: INFO: Release Level: 22
vrts:vxlicense: INFO: Machine Class: All
vrts:vxlicense: INFO: Site ID: 0

vrts:vxlicense: INFO: Feature name: VxVM [95]
vrts:vxlicense: INFO: Number of licenses: 1 (non-floating)
vrts:vxlicense: INFO: Expiration date: Sun Jul 15 02:00:00 2007 (93.3 days ago)
vrts:vxlicense: INFO: Release Level: 25
vrts:vxlicense: INFO: Machine Class: All
vrts:vxlicense: INFO: Site ID: 0


Try:

/sbin/fs/vxfs/vxenablef -e online


Rgds...Geoff

[Adam Noble]

yep you are right license has expired. Thanks