Mounting an NFS volume at startup in AIX 4.2

[jmargiolas]

I have a volume being exported from an IRIX 6.5.17 server. The permissions are set to root at the SGI. I can mount and manipulate the volume by mounting it manually. I want it to mount automatically when the AIX machine boots. How can I do this? I have changed options in /etc/filesystems and it doesn't seem to work. Here is my setup:
/dataVolumes/CurrentWork:
dev = "/raid/CurrentWork"
vfs = nfs
nodename = sgi
mount = true
type = scitex_no_auto_mount
options = bg,soft,intr,retry=3,proto=tcp
account = false
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks

 

[nwardez]

Hi,

When you mount it manually, do you just "mount /dataVolumes/CurrentWork" or do you use a full syntax ?

 

[jmargiolas]

I use the mount server:/raid/currentwork /dataVolumes/currentwork

 

[nwardez]

According to me, filesystems are mounted before TCP/IP & NFS services are started. That would explain why it can not be mounted on startup, with others. Try to add a mount command in an rc.local script that you call at a run level where they are enabled (your default runlevel, for example).

 

[AIXSPadmin]

Filesystems are mounted by /etc/filesystems even if they are nfs filesystems. I can atest to this because we have a few filesystems that are mounted on production servers and the nfs mounts are mounted on reboots. Everything is at work so I cannot tell you right now what is started in what boot phase, but doing it in an rc.local script is not the answer, just a band-aid.

 

[jmargiolas]

So is there anything in the way I entered it in /etc/filesystems that is causing it not to mount? We have tried type=auto_mount, no_auto_mount . Please advise. Thanks

 

[AIXSPadmin]

Every node we have that have nfs mounts have identical options in /etc/filesystems shown below:

/data:
dev = "/data"
vfs = nfs
nodename = Pluto
mount = true
options = bg,hard,intr
account = false

 

[jmargiolas]

on this system they have an NFS mount from AIX4.2 called dataVolumes. inside of it they have a JFS mount called Brisque10.2. I am trying to mount inside of the NFS mount as another NFS mount, is this possible to do at boot? Also is the JFS mount a local File system? Thanks