Cluster File Systems

Consider the following points when you plan cluster file systems.

• Quotas - Quotas are not supported on cluster file systems.

• Loopback file system (LOFS) - Sun Cluster software does not support the use of the loopback file system (LOFS) on cluster nodes.

• Communication end-points - The cluster file system does not support any of the file-system features of Solaris software by which one would put a communication end-point in the file-system name space.

  • Although you can create a UNIX domain socket whose name is a path name into the cluster file system, the socket would not survive a node failover.

  • Any FIFOs or named pipes that you create on a cluster file system would not be globally accessible.

  Therefore, do not attempt to use the fattach command from any node other than the local node.