Date: 2008-04-08 OS: HPUX OS Version:11.31 Etrack Incidents: 1512762, 1537376 Errors/Problems Fixed: 1512762 HxRT 5.0.1:Checkpoint clonedb fails giving error ORA 600 for online, offline, instant checkpoints 1537376 Need to make ODM mount/unmount static to avoid error message at console if /usr is not mounted at the time of loading ODM. Fixes Applied for Products: VRTSodm 1. Install and Uninstall Instructions for the ODM patch: ---------------------------------------------------- 1.1. To install the ODM 5.0-RP3 patch: a) The ODM 5.0(GA) must be installed before applying this patch. b) To verify the Veritas Oracle Disk Manager level, execute: # swlist -l product | egrep -i 'VRTSodm' VRTSodm 5.0.31.0 Veritas Oracle Disk Manager c) All prerequisite/corequisite patches must be installed. The Kernel patch requires a system reboot for both installation and removal. d) To install the patch, execute the following command: # swinstall -x autoreboot=true -s PHKL_39471 If the patch is not registered, you can register it using the following command: # swreg -l depot The is the absolute path where the patch resides. 1.2. To remove the ODM 5.0-RP3 patch: a) Execute the following command: # swremove -x autoreboot=true PHKL_39471 IMPORTANT : READ BEFORE INSTALLATION & USE: 1. There is a panic in ASYNC I/O codepaths in HPUX 11.31. See etrack incident 848725. HP provided a patch for ic148. Patch your machine before you install VRTSvxvm package. See Installation steps below for how to put this patch. 2. After installing VRTSvxfs package, copy the following binaries - fsclustadm, qiomkfile, qioadmin, qiostat, vxfsckd, vxgetmsg from, /usr/lbin/fs/vxfs5.0 to, /usr/sbin This is fixed after 5.0_11.31-2006-11-15a drop was delivered. Please see etrack incident 820774. Fix will be part of next drop. 3. After installing VRTSodm package and after every reboot, the ODM module is not getting loaded automatically. To check the module state fire : kcmodule -v odm To Load the odm module explicitly : kcmodule -v odm=loaded This behaviour is due to VRTSvxvm's dmp et.al modules issue. Please see etrack incident 859475 4. After installing VRTSodm package and after every reboot, /dev/odm is not getting mounted automatically. You need to mount it explicitly using the following command. mount -F odm /dev/odm /dev/odm This behaviour is also due to VRTSvxvm's dmp et.al modules issue. Please see etrack incident 859475 5. umount of a filesystem on which odm files sit may return EBUSY (see etrack incident 856896. Please use "vxumount -o force " in that case. Also note that you need to unmount (or force unmount) all VxFS file-systems on which odm files are sitting, before going to unmount /dev/odm. 6. There is a cache-coherency issue in FDD (a module in VRTSvxfs), due to which you may not see the data written through ODM files in clones or shared-mmaps. (See etrack incidents 843809 and 857983) INSTALLATION STEPS: - Copy the vm_vasm patch to /usr/conf/mod/ to a freshly installed ic148 perf machine - Install VRTSvlic - Install VRTSvxvm - Install VRTSvxfs - Install VRTSodm Known Issues ============ Smartsync Option not supported for ODM 5.0 on HP-UX 11iv3 The Beta releases of SFORA 5.0 and SFRAC 5.0 on HP-UX 11iv3 will not support ODM (Oracle Disk Manager) to be used in the smartsync mode of operation. ODM will be mounted in the 'nosmartsync' mode by default. Using ODM in the smartsync mode of operation might lead to unexpected behavior for the applications.