Creating and configuring NFS mount points on clients

An NFS mount point is required to mount a file system using NFS. In a nonconcurrent resource group all the nodes in the resource group mount the NFS file system. You create an NFS mount point on each node in the resource group. The NFS mount point must be outside the directory tree of the local mount point.

About this task

After the NFS mount point is created on all nodes in the resource group, configure the NFS Filesystem to NFS Mount attribute for the resource group.

To create NFS mount points and to configure the resource group for the NFS mount:

Procedure

  1. On each node in the resource group, create an NFS mount point by executing the following command:
    mkdir /mount point

    where mount point is the name of the local NFS mount point over which the remote file system is mounted.

  2. In the Change/Show Resources and Attributes for a Resource Group SMIT panel, the Filesystem to NFS Mount field must specify both mount points.

    Specify the nfs mount point and the local mount point, separating the two with a semicolon. For example:

    /nfspoint;/localpoint

    If there are more entries, separate them with a space:

    /nfspoint1;/local1 /nfspoint2;/local2 
  3. Optional: If there are nested mount points, nest the NFS mount points in the same manner as the local mount points so that they match correctly.
  4. Optional: When cross-mounting NFS file systems, set the Filesystems Mounted before IP Configured field in SMIT for the resource group to true.