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Sun Cluster Software Installation Guide for Solaris OS

ProcedureHow to Create Cluster File Systems

Perform this procedure for each cluster file system that you want to create. Unlike a local file system, a cluster file system is accessible from any node in the cluster.

Note –

Alternatively, you can use a highly available local file system to support a data service. For information about choosing between creating a cluster file system or a highly available local file system to support a particular data service, see the manual for that data service. For general information about creating a highly available local file system, see Enabling Highly Available Local File Systems in Sun Cluster Data Services Planning and Administration Guide for Solaris OS.

Before You Begin

Perform the following tasks:

  1. Become superuser on any node in the cluster.

    For Solaris, you must perform this procedure from the global zone if non-global zones are configured in the cluster.

    Tip –

    For faster file-system creation, become superuser on the current primary of the global device for which you create a file system.

  2. Create a file system.

    Caution – Caution –

    Any data on the disks is destroyed when you create a file system. Be sure that you specify the correct disk device name. If you specify the wrong device name, you might erase data that you did not intend to delete.

    • For a UFS file system, use the newfs(1M) command.


      phys-schost# newfs raw-disk-device

      The following table shows examples of names for the raw-disk-device argument. Note that naming conventions differ for each volume manager.

      Volume Manager 

      Sample Disk Device Name 

      Description 

      Solaris Volume Manager 

      /dev/md/nfs/rdsk/d1

      Raw disk device d1 within the nfs disk set

      VERITAS Volume Manager 

      /dev/vx/rdsk/oradg/vol01

      Raw disk device vol01 within the oradg disk group

      None 

      /dev/global/rdsk/d1s3

      Raw disk device d1s3

    • SPARC: For a VERITAS File System (VxFS) file system, follow the procedures that are provided in your VxFS documentation.

  3. On each node in the cluster, create a mount-point directory for the cluster file system.

    A mount point is required on each node, even if the cluster file system is not accessed on that node.

    Tip –

    For ease of administration, create the mount point in the /global/device-group/ directory. This location enables you to easily distinguish cluster file systems, which are globally available, from local file systems.


    phys-schost# mkdir -p /global/device-group/mountpoint/
    device-group

    Name of the directory that corresponds to the name of the device group that contains the device.

    mountpoint

    Name of the directory on which to mount the cluster file system.

  4. On each node in the cluster, add an entry to the /etc/vfstab file for the mount point.

    See the vfstab(4) man page for details.

    Note –

    If non-global zones are configured in the cluster, ensure that you mount cluster file systems in the global zone on a path in the global zone's root directory.

    1. In each entry, specify the required mount options for the type of file system that you use.

      Note –

      Do not use the logging mount option for Solaris Volume Manager transactional volumes. Transactional volumes provide their own logging.

      In addition, Solaris Volume Manager transactional-volume logging is removed from the Solaris 10 OS. Solaris UFS logging provides the same capabilities but superior performance, as well as lower system administration requirements and overhead.

    2. To automatically mount the cluster file system, set the mount at boot field to yes.

    3. Ensure that, for each cluster file system, the information in its /etc/vfstab entry is identical on each node.

    4. Ensure that the entries in each node's /etc/vfstab file list devices in the same order.

    5. Check the boot order dependencies of the file systems.

      For example, consider the scenario where phys-schost-1 mounts disk device d0 on /global/oracle/, and phys-schost-2 mounts disk device d1 on /global/oracle/logs/. With this configuration, phys-schost-2 can boot and mount /global/oracle/logs/ only after phys-schost-1 boots and mounts /global/oracle/.

  5. On any node in the cluster, run the configuration check utility.


    phys-schost# sccheck

    The configuration check utility verifies that the mount points exist. The utility also verifies that /etc/vfstab file entries are correct on all nodes of the cluster. If no errors occur, nothing is returned.

    For more information, see the sccheck(1M) man page.

  6. Mount the cluster file system.


    phys-schost# mount /global/device-group/mountpoint/

    • For UFS, mount the cluster file system from any node in the cluster.

    • SPARC: For VxFS, mount the cluster file system from the current master of device-group to ensure that the file system mounts successfully.

      In addition, unmount a VxFS file system from the current master of device-group to ensure that the file system unmounts successfully.

      Note –

      To manage a VxFS cluster file system in a Sun Cluster environment, run administrative commands only from the primary node on which the VxFS cluster file system is mounted.

  7. On each node of the cluster, verify that the cluster file system is mounted.

    You can use either the df command or mount command to list mounted file systems. For more information, see the df(1M) man page or mount(1M) man page.

    For the Solaris 10 OS, cluster file systems are accessible from both the global zone and the non-global zone.

Example 6–1 Creating a Cluster File System

The following example creates a UFS cluster file system on the Solaris Volume Manager volume /dev/md/oracle/rdsk/d1. An entry for the cluster file system is added to the vfstab file on each node. Then from one node the sccheck command is run. After configuration check processing is completes successfully, the cluster file system is mounted from one node and verified on all nodes.


phys-schost# newfs /dev/md/oracle/rdsk/d1
…
phys-schost# mkdir -p /global/oracle/d1
phys-schost# vi /etc/vfstab
#device           device        mount   FS      fsck    mount   mount
#to mount         to fsck       point   type    pass    at boot options
#                     
/dev/md/oracle/dsk/d1 /dev/md/oracle/rdsk/d1 /global/oracle/d1 ufs 2 yes global,logging
…
phys-schost# sccheck
phys-schost# mount /global/oracle/d1
phys-schost# mount
…
/global/oracle/d1 on /dev/md/oracle/dsk/d1 read/write/setuid/global/logging/largefiles
on Sun Oct 3 08:56:16 2005
Next Steps

Determine from the following list the next task to perform that applies to your cluster configuration. If you need to perform more than one task from this list, go to the first of those tasks in this list.