Managing Systems and Workgroups: A Guide for HP-UX System Administrators

Setting Up and Administering an HP-UX NFS Diskless Cluster
NFS Diskless Questions and Answers
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If the corresponding .fs file is not present, the secondary loader will
default to loading the file called vmunix.fs. If this file is not compatible
with your kernel, unexpected behavior (possibly bad) may result.
Single Point Administration
Policies
Question: I selected the “Shared Home Directories” policy, but my users’
directories under /users and /users2 did not appear on the clients. Is
there a way to make them appear on all clients?
Answer: Yes, you can use SAM to make a file system cluster-wide.
Do this by selecting the file system and choosing the action “Manage as
a Cluster-wide Resource” in SAM’s “File Systems” area.
There are some things to consider:
• If the file system is local to the server, then selecting “Manage
Cluster-wide” will add the file system to the cluster clients using
the automounter.
If you prefer not to use the automounter, execute SAM from a client
and choose
“Add a Remote File System -> Using NFS...”
Set “Manage Cluster-Wide” to “Yes”.
• If the file system is not local to the server, add it to the server using
NFS or the Automounter and set “Manage Cluster-Wide” to “Yes”.
• If the home directory is not a file system, but just a directory on the
server, you need to perform the task from a client.
Add it to the client using NFS or the automounter and set “Manage
as a Cluster-Wide” to “Yes”.
NOTE Use NFS (not automounter) to mount a remote file system that will
have a local file system mounted onto it. You should also include the
mount option boot in the file system’s entry in /etc/fstab. This