Create and Mount PFS File Systems

As with UFS file systems, you can use the Solaris utilities mkfs and mount to create and mount PFS file systems. For example, the following creates a 64-Kbyte PFS file system named pfs-demo0. Execute it on any server node.

adm# mkfs -F pfs pfs-demo0 64K

The -F option specifies the file system's type, which is pfs.

Next, mount the file system on each client node that has a PFS proxy daemon.

hpc-node0# mount -F pfs pfs-demo0 /pfs_demo0
hpc-node1# mount -F pfs pfs-demo0 /pfs_demo0
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Alternatively, you can execute the following on a single node. This will cause the PFS file system to be mounted on all nodes in the cluster.

# /opt/SUNWhpc/bin/pfsmount pfs-demo0 /pfs_demo0

You may also want to add an entry for each PFS file system in the file /etc/vfstab. This will make it unnecessary to include the -F option when making and mounting the file systems. Example 5-1 shows how a PFS file system entry might look in the file /etc/vfstab.

Example 5-1 Sample PFS Entry in /etc/vfstab

#device      device         mount         FS      fsck   mount     mount
#to mount    to fsck        point         type    pass   at boot   options
pfs-demo0    -              /pfs_demo0    pfs     -      no        -