HP-UX 11i v3 Installation and Update Guide, March 2010

Table A-2 Known install and update problems (continued)
Description/actionProblem
The HP-UX 11i v3 September 2008 release includes the option to tune the system
base page size to values larger than its 4 KB default. Integrity Virtual Machines
always uses this feature to tune the system base page size in the Platform Manager
to 64 KB. HFS file systems will fail to mount when the file system block size is
less than the system base page size.
What to do
If you are performing an update, and plan to use a non-default base page size,
replace each HFS file system with a VxFS file system. For each existing HFS file
system, create a new VxFS file system and copy the contents of the HFS file system
to the VxFS file system. HP does not recommend using HFS file systems on
systems where the base page size will be tuned to a non-default value. While
HFS file systems can be configured to work in this environment, VxFS
administration is much simpler than HFS administration with non-default base
page sizes.
During a cold-install, configure all physical file systems as VxFS file systems.
For information about the new tunable that controls the size of a system base
page, see “Tunable Base Page Size” in the HP-UX 11i Version 3 September 2008
Release Notes (www.hp.com/go/hpux-core-docs).
HFS file system block size must
be greater than or equal to
system base page size
Due to a limitation on the length of the pathname to backing store volumes,
cold-installing HP-UX 11i v3 fails in an Integrity VM guest when using host
VxVM volumes as the guest's backing store. The install fails with the following
error:
NOTICE: VxVM vxdmp V-5-0-34 added disk array
OTHER_DISKS, datype = OTHER_DISKS
VxVM vxdisk ERROR V-5-1-5433 Device disk1_p2:
init failed: Device path not valid
* smapi listener returned "ACTION_FAILURE"
for message "CREATE_GROUP"
The configuration process has incurred an error,
would you like to push a shell for
debugging purposes? (y/[n]):
The issue will be fixed in a subsequent release of VxVM.
What to do
Restrict the length of the pathname to a backing store volume. If using VxVM
volumes as backing store, the combined number of characters in the volume
group name AND the volume name must not exceed 9.
For all backing stores (including LVM or raw disk), the full pathname to the
backing store or volume must not exceed 23 characters.
Cold-install fails in Integrity VM
Guest
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