Guidelines for the /globaldevices File System

Sun Cluster software requires that you set aside a special file system on one of the local disks for use in managing global devices. This file system must be separate, as it will later be mounted as a cluster file system. Name this file system /globaldevices, which is the default name recognized by the scinstall(1M) command. The scinstall command later renames the file system /global/.devices/node@nodeid, where nodeid represents the number assigned to a node when it becomes a cluster member, and the original /globaldevices mount point is removed. The /globaldevices file system must have ample space and inode capacity for creating both block special devices and character special devices, especially if a large number of disks are in the cluster. A file system size of 512 Mbytes should be more than enough for most cluster configurations.