Weird Online JFS problems...

[Kenneth Platz]

We recently built a new kernel on one of our servers (rp7420, HP-UX 11.11), and everything came back up without any problems. However, after some maintenance last weekend, we are coming up with the following error when we try to mount all our filesystems:

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

Some checking on this indicated that OnlineJFS may be the culprit. I next checked vxlicense:

[/] root@beeville #vxlicense -p

vrts:vxlicense: INFO: Feature name: HP_OnlineJFS [50]
vrts:vxlicense: INFO: Number of licenses: 1 (non-floating)
vrts:vxlicense: INFO: Expiration date: Sun Jun 24 03:00:00 2007 (796.7 days from now)
vrts:vxlicense: INFO: Release Level: 22
vrts:vxlicense: INFO: Machine Class: All
vrts:vxlicense: INFO: Site ID: 0

OK, so we should have a license for OnlineJFS. But I next checked with vxenablef:

[/etc/vx/elm] root@beeville #/sbin/fs/vxfs/vxenablef -e online
HP_OnLineJFS is not licensed

Now the system date is correct (ie, it's not skewed a couple years in the future)... so, the question is, how do we correct this?

Thanks in advance

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi Kenneth,

what about

# /sbin/fs/vxfs/vxenablef -a

# grep vx /etc/inittab
should return
vxen::bootwait:/sbin/fs/vxfs/vxenablef -a

Robert-Jan

[Kenneth Platz]

Doing a "vxenablef -a" gives no output. I just checked the inittab and found:

[/sbin/fs/vxfs] root@beeville #grep vx /etc/inittab
vxen::bootwait:/sbin/fs/vxfs/vxenablef -a
vol1::sysinit:/sbin/init.d/vxvm-sysboot /dev/console 2>&1 ##vxvm
vol2::sysinit:/sbin/init.d/vxvm-startup start /dev/console 2>&1 ##vxvm

[RAC_1]

swverify -v OnlineJFS
Is vxadv kernel driver in place??

Anil

[Kenneth Platz]

Anil,

We DO have the OnlineJFS product installed, and swverify says that it's OK.

The kernel currently has the following vx drivers in place:

[/var/adm/syslog] root@beeville #grep vx /stand/system
vxdmp
vxfs
vxportal
vxvm

[RAC_1]

Did you try extending a lvol online?? did it work. If vxadv driver is not in kernel, you will have to tune the kernel and add it.

Anil

[Kenneth Platz]

As I recall, vxadv is the driver for OnlineJFS3.1, but OnlineJFS3.3 uses vxportal/vxvm, correct? I don't even show a vxadv driver, and it's not installed on any of our other 40+ servers which are functioning correctly.

[RAC_1]

Yes. It could be. But as I asked in my previous posting, did you try extending a lvol online??

Anil

[Kenneth Platz]

I found the solution -- apparently when we replaced a cell board over the weekend the time had briefly gotten skewed about a month into the future. That set the timestamp on the /etc/vx/elm/50.lic file to a future date, and screwed things up.

So I touch'ed the /etc/vx/elm/50.lic file and then did a swconfig OnlineJFS followed by a /sbin/fs/vxfs/vxenablef -e online, and that fixed the errors.