Hi Raghu,

Thx for the suggestio..but we had already take care of
it....The major and minor numbers are 199,10 to
199,17.


Regards,
Dharmesh.


--- Raghavendra Jorapur
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> Hi Dharmesh,
> 
> we had seen a similar problem in our testing and 
> reminoring the volumes that needs to be exported
> using "vxdg reminor" 
> command  to less than 255  solved the problem.
> 
> HTH  thanks,
> 
> Raghu
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Behalf Of Dharmesh
> Kamdar
> Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 7:44 AM
> To: Tom Stephens
> Cc: veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-ha] Unable to mount volumes on
> nfs-client in VSF
> 4.1MP2for RHEL 4 AS U3 hosts.....
> 
> Hi Tom,
> 
> Thx for the quick feedback.... We've already tried
> this suggestion (from Symantec tech support).
> This is what we did:
> 1) hastop -all
> 
> 2) One one VCS host, assigned 2 BRAND NEW LUNS
> (non-shared) from our storage and created a new
> TEST_DISKGRP with those 2 LUNS.
> 
> 3) Created one test volume and vxfs on it and
> mounted
> it on /mnt/testvol (perms were 777).
> (for e.g.
> mout -t vxfs /dev/vx/dsk/TEST_DISKGRP/testvol
> /mnt/testvol)
> 
> 4) In the /etc/exports file, we put the foll.line:
> /mnt/testvol *(rw,sync)
> 
> 5) exportfs -ra
> 
> 6) From the NFS client, tested it via:
> $>mount -t nfs 192.168.2.185:/mnt/testvol
> /mnt/test_vol
> 
> 7) The result was the same: "reason given by server:
> Permission denied."
> 
> We've already checked the comms..The nfs-client can
> ping the vcs-servers and the virtual-IP addr (for
> NFS).
> Similarly the VCS-hosts can ping successfully the
> NFS-client...
> 
> We got one more additional server with the same
> architecture and plain RHEL AS 4 U3 (NO VERITAS
> component)...we tried exporting a local FS and
> mounting it on our NFS-client successfully. 
> 
> While going thru' various NFS-mailing list, I came
> across one more possible soln is to add the
> following
> lines to /etc/fstab on VCS-hosts:
> 
> nfsd    /proc/fs/nfsd nfsd auto,defaults  0 0
> sunrpc /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs rpc_pipefs     
> auto,defaults  0 0
> 
>
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=126263)
> 
> I've already added 1st line with no avail..But
> tomorrow I will try to add 2nd line and see if that
> helps.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Dharmesh.
> --- Tom Stephens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Dharmesh,
> > 
> >     This may sound a bit repetitive from what support
> > has told you,
> > but here's what I'd try:
> > 
> > First, this appears to be a NFS problem.  Even so,
> > what I would do is
> > first isolate it completely from VCS.  To do this,
> I
> > would stop VCS
> > (hastop -all) and make sure that all the resources
> > were offline.  Then I
> > would bring up the IP, import the disks, mount the
> > mounts, ect... by
> > hand.  Then I would try to access it from the
> > client.  (If you really
> > want to, you could try and export something that
> > wasn't under VxVM
> > control too).  If you can do it manually, then you
> > know that there isn't
> > a issue say with network connectivity, /etc/hosts
> or
> > the like.  If you
> > are still getting the same error, then...
> > 
> > I'd check your /etc/exports file.  Make double
> sure
> > that the volume is
> > exported.  Also ensure that your client is
> > attempting to mount the
> > volume with the same permissions as listed.  (In
> > other words that you
> > client is not trying to mount a ro FS rw)
> > 
> > If you've made any changes to /etc/exports, type
> > exportfs -ra.
> > 
> > Verify /proc/fs/nfs/exports (and
> /var/lib/nfs/xtab)
> > are correct. 
> > 
> > Check that comms are good between the server and
> > client, and that
> > everyone knows who the other is.  Ping the client
> > from the server and
> > the server from the client.  Make sure that the
> > names used are the same
> > as when you do the mount, and that there is not
> > /etc/hosts entry messing
> > things up.
> > 
> >     Tom
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > On Behalf Of Dharmesh
> > Kamdar
> > Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2006 2:23 PM
> > To: veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> > Subject: [Veritas-ha] Unable to mount volumes on
> > nfs-client in VSF 4.1
> > MP2for RHEL 4 AS U3 hosts.....
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > We have 2 node VCS cluster. The specifics are as
> > follows:
> > 
> > Product Version : VERITAS Storage Foundation v4.1
> > MP2
> > for Linux
> > 
> > # of nodes in VCS : 2
> > 
> > HOST OS : RHEL AS 4 U3 (32 bit --
> > kernel-->2.6.9-34smp)
> > 
> > We've defined one fail-over service grp with bunch
> > of
> > volumes to be shared via NFS. The service group
> > fails-over back-and-forth between 2 VCS nodes just
> > fine.
> > 
> > Howsoever, when we try to mount the exported
> volumes
> > on an NFS-client, we keep getting following error:
> > 
> > "reason given by server: Permission denied."
> > The NFS-client is also running RHEL AS 5 U3.
> > 
> > We also tried changing the permissions of
> > mount-points
> > on the VCS  hosts (/mnt/vcsvol*) to be 777.
> > 
> > 1) SELinux is OFF on both the VCS hosts and the
> > NFS-client
> > 
> > 2) FIREWALL is OFF on both the VCS hosts and the
> > NFS-client
> > 
> > We've opened a case with Symatec tech-support as
> > well..So far, we both (ourself and Symatec
> > tech-support) have tried following things without
> > any
> > luck:
> > 
> > 1) tried AIX client with the same results...
> > 
> > 
> > 2) Upgraded the NFS package on all VCS hosts and
> > nfs-client to the latest level (as per RED HAT
> > Errata)
> > 
> 
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