How to Migrate the Global-Devices Namespace From a Dedicated Partition to a
lofi Device
1. Become superuser on the global-cluster voting node whose namespace
location you want to change.
2. Ensure that no file named /.globaldevices already exists on the node. If
the file does exist, delete it.
3. Create the lofi device.
# mkfile 100m /.globaldevices
# lofiadm -a /.globaldevices
# LOFI_DEV=`lofiadm /.globaldevices`
# newfs `echo ${LOFI_DEV} | sed -e 's/lofi/rlofi/g'` < /dev/null
# lofiadm -d /.globaldevices
4. In the /etc/vfstab file, comment out the global-devices namespace entry.
This entry has a mount path that begins with /global/.device/node at nodeID.
5. Unmount the global-devices partition /global/.devices/node at nodeID.
6. Disable and re-enable the globaldevices and scmountdev SMF services.
# svcadm disable globaldevices
# svcadm disable scmountdev
# svcadm enable scmountdev
# svcadm enable globaldevices
A lofi device is now created on /.globaldevices and mounted as the
global-devices file system.
7. Repeat these steps on any other nodes whose global-devices namespace you
want to migrate from a partition to a lofi device.
8. From one node, populate the global-device namespaces.
# /usr/cluster/bin/cldevice populate
On each node, verify that the command has completed processing before you
perform any further actions on the cluster.
# ps -ef | grep scgdevs
The global-devices namespace now resides on a lofi device.
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