Date: 2009-02-18
OS: HPUX 
OS Version: 11.23
Etrack Incidents: 1101913, 1403310, 1407224, 1407260, 1444374, 1460373, 1468071, 1481525, 1499053, 1499054, 1517774 
Errors/Problems Fixed:
1101913 vx_ireuse han stall causing CFS hang. 
1403310 Reuters workload causes VxFS 4.0mp1 to consumes too much kmem 
1407224 vxupgrade from Layout5 to Layout6 doesn't finish for several hours
1407260 vxupgrade from Layout5 to Layout6 getting inode table overflow 
1444374 vxupgrade 5->6 still fails with ENFILE
1460373 deadlock - locking order between vnode lock and Glock 
1468071 CFS read performance is 5 times slower than LM in HP-UX. 
1481525 Data page fault panic at vx_readnomap- >uiomove 
1499053 fsclustadm cfsdeinit failed with "device busy". PHKL_37113 installed. 
1499054 vx_lookup returning ENOENT due to stale negative DNLC entry 
1517774 SDET performance regression on 128 cpu machines 

Install and Uninstall Instructions:
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1.Installing VxFS 4.1 MP2RP5     patch:

a)If you install this patch on a CVM cluster, install it one
 system at a time so that all the nodes are not brought down
 simultaneously.
b)VxFS 4.1(GA)  must be installed before applying these
  patches.
c)To verify the VERITAS file system level, enter:
     # swlist -l product | egrep -i 'VRTSvxfs'
  VRTSvxfs     4.1        VERITAS File System  

d)All prerequisite/corequisite patches have to be installed.The Kernel patch 
  requires a system reboot for both installation and removal.
e)To install the patch, enter the following command:
# swinstall -x autoreboot=true -s <patch_directory> PHKL_39259
2.Removing VxFS 4.1-MP2RP5     patch:
a)To remove the patch, enter the following command:

# swremove -x autoreboot=true PHKL_39259

Notes:
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1.Special Installation Instruction: This patch requires 
the JFS fsck(1M) binary to be present at the
standard location (/sbin/fs/vxfs/fsck). The swverify(1M) command can be
used to verify the integrity of the JFS.VXFS-BASE-RUN fileset that
contains the fsck(1M) binary.