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mmremotefs Command
Options
-A {yes | no | automount}
Indicates when the file system is to be mounted:
yes When the GPFS daemon starts.
no Manual mount. This is the default.
automount When the file system is first accessed.
-o MountOptions
Specifies the mount options to pass to the mount command when mounting the file system. For a
detailed description of the available mount options, see “GPFS-specific mount options” on page
13.
-T MountPoint
Indicates the local mount point for the remote GPFS file system.
Exit status
0 Successful completion. After successful completion of the mmremotefs command, the
new configuration information is propagated to all nodes in the cluster.
nonzero A failure has occurred.
Security
You must have root authority to run the mmremotefs command.
You may issue the mmremotefs command from any node in the GPFS cluster.
Examples
This command adds remote file system gpfsn, owned by remote cluster k164.kgn.ibm.com, to the local
cluster, assigning rgpfsn as the local name for the file system, and /gpfs/rgpfsn as the local mount point.
mmremotefs add rgpfsn -f gpfsn -C k164.kgn.ibm.com -T /gpfs/rgpfsn
The output is similar to this:
mmremotefs: 6027-1371 Propagating the changes to all affected
nodes. This is an asynchronous process.
The mmremotefs show command can be used to see the changes.
mmremotefs show rgpfsn
The output is similar to this:
Local Name Remote Name Cluster name Mount Point Mount Options Automount
rgpfsn gpfsn k164n.kgn.ibm.com /gpfs/rgpfsn rw,mtime,noatime no
See also
“mmauth Command” on page 73
“mmremotecluster Command” on page 240
Accessing GPFS file systems from other GPFS clusters in General Parallel File System: Advanced
Administration Guide.
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