Amusing thing is you have to wonder who named it GPFS (General
Protection FaultS) :-)
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From: Peter DrakeUnderkoffler [mailto:pcd AT xinupro DOT com]
Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 3:09 PM
To: Jeff Lightner
Cc: Mark.Donaldson AT cexp DOT com; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup doesn't seem to like IBM's GPFS <<
Rev ised
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True, but the error message posted complained about not getting ACL
information.
I was thinking that if the file system supports being exported via NFS,
then
platform independent systems could access it which might give them a
stop
gap solution. If they are at a road block, might be worth trying,
although
it certainly isn't enterprise worthy.
Thanks
Peter DrakeUnderkoffler
Jeff Lightner wrote:
> I suspect this would still be a problem. Since it's a clustered
> filesystem it likely has its own locking mechanisms. If you can't
> directly back it up from GPFS then you wouldn't be able to do so
> indirectly either as any access via NFS would still fall back to the
> GPFS to do the actual work.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Peter
> DrakeUnderkoffler
> Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 2:18 PM
> To: Mark.Donaldson AT cexp DOT com
> Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup doesn't seem to like IBM's GPFS <<
> Rev ised
>
>
> What if you did some funny swill where you export the GPFS and mount
it
> via NFS on the same box it's exported from, going through the loop
back
> device and backing up the NFS mount?
>
> Thanks
> Peter DrakeUnderkoffler
>
>
>
> Mark.Donaldson AT cexp DOT com wrote:
>
>>>Doesn't appear to be Posix compliant. It comes with a mmbackup tool
>
> to back
>
>>>it up but that appears to be intended only to send data to Tivoli TSM
>
> per
>
>>>their admin guide.
>>>
>>>No love for Netbackup.
>>>
>>>-M
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>>>[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu]On Behalf Of Peter
>>>DrakeUnderkoffler
>>>Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 11:24 AM
>>>To: Mark.Donaldson AT cexp DOT com
>>>Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>>>Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup doesn't seem to like IBM's GPFS
<<
>>>Revised
>>>
>>>
>>>Don't know a thing about GPFS, is it a POSIX compliant f/s?
>>>How does IBM want you to back it up?
>>>
>>>Thanks
>>>Peter DrakeUnderkoffler
>>>
>>>
>>>Mark.Donaldson AT cexp DOT com wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>>Original note said Oracle's GPFS. It's not Oracle's GPFS, it's
IBM's
>
> GPFS
>
>>>>>on which Oracle is certified. OCFS is not certified on AIX. It's
>
> IBM's
>
>>>>>answer to a clustered filesystem.
>>>>>
>>>>>Lots of warnings trying to back up a GPFS filesystem mounted on an
>
> AIX
>
>>>v5.3
>>>
>>>
>>>>>box:
>>>>>
>>>>>10/19/2005 17:02:13 uscobrmfa-ug-50 uscobrmfa-ad-95 from client
>>>>> uscobrmfa-ad-95: WRN - Could not get ACL
>>>>> information for
>>>>>
/oragpfs/INSTALL_FILES/10102_install/Disk1/stage/
>>>>>
Components/oracle.p2k.precomp_common/10.1.0.2.0/1
>>>>> /DataFiles/mesg.11.1.jar. Errno = 22: A system
>>>>> call received a parameter that is not valid.
>>>>>
>>>>>A search for "GPFS" in the Veritas support pages doesn't yield
>
> anything.
>
>>>>>Google continues to be little help either.
>>>>>
>>>>>Anybody have any comments on this?
>>>>>
>>>>>-M
>>>>>
>>>>>
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