mmstartup command

Availability

Available on all IBM Storage Scale editions.

Description

Use the mmstartup command to start the GPFS daemons on one or more nodes. If no operand is specified, GPFS is started only on the node from which the command was issued.

Parameters

-a

Start GPFS on all nodes in a GPFS cluster.

-N {Node[,Node...] | NodeFile | NodeClass}

Directs the mmstartup command to process a set of nodes.

For general information on how to specify node names, see Specifying nodes as input to GPFS commands.

This command does not support a NodeClass of mount.

-E EnvVar=value

Specifies the name and value of an environment variable to be passed to the GPFS daemon. You can specify multiple -E options.

Exit status

0

Successful completion.

nonzero

A failure has occurred.

Security

You must have root authority to run the mmstartup command.

The node on which the command is issued must be able to execute remote shell commands on any other node in the cluster without the use of a password and without producing any extraneous messages. For more information, see Requirements for administering a GPFS file system.

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