How to Add a Client or Potential Metadata Server

After you add a potential metadata server to the shared file system, the SAM-QFS Manager software automatically updates the hosts file on the potential metadata server system.

Before You Begin

Before you can add a client or potential metadata server to an existing shared file system, you must have prepared your configuration as described in Planning a Shared File System.

  1. From the Manage Hosts menu or the Managed Hosts page, choose a server that is acting as the metadata server or as the potential metadata server for the shared file system.

    The File Systems Summary page is displayed.

  2. Scroll through the table and click the shared file system name.

    The Shared File System Summary page is displayed.

  3. Click Add Hosts.

    The Add a Potential Metadata Server or a Shared Client window is displayed.

  4. Choose the type of host you want to add:
  5. From the Host menu, choose the host that you want to add to the shared file system.

    The menu lists hosts that have been added to the browser interface, that have the same Sun QFS and Sun SAM release levels as the metadata server, and that have the Sun QFS package installed locally.

  6. If you are adding a potential metadata server, select or deselect Read Only as follows:
  7. In the Mount Point field, type the full directory path to which you want the file system attached (mounted) within your system’s directory tree. Use the following syntax:
    /directory-name/file-system-name

    Note - If the directory that you specify already exists, you can access existing files in that directory only when the file system is unmounted.


  8. If you want to create the mount point that you specified or you want the file system to be mounted at boot time, select the appropriate check boxes.
  9. Click OK.