What is /dev/ipldevice?

[alan147]

Good morning

I have just come across three or four entries in the process list for /usr/sbin/bosboot -qad /dev/ipldevice going back to various dates in june. What is it? Is it related to a mksysb job that was left lying around> and is it safe to kill the processes?

Thanks

Alan

 

[Morsing]

ipldevice is the LV that has the boot block. (e.g. /dev/hd5)

They shouldn't be running in the background so something is definately wrong. botboot writes the boot code (normally) the the ipldevice.

I have never seen the -q flag before but from the man page:

-q Determines how much disk space is required in which file system to create the
boot image. Boot image is not created. This flag is optional.

Cheers

Henrik Morsing
Certified AIX 4.3 Systems Administration
& p690 Technical Support

 

[alan147]

Thanks