Starting a Linux client

This topic provides information for starting a Linux client.

Context

You can use the setupstclient command or a series of manual steps to start a Linux client. The client driver is automatically started by starting the operating system.

Steps

  1. If you are using the setupstclient command:
    1. Type setupstclient and press Enter to start the setup guide.
    2. Enter the appropriate information, when prompted, to set up the virtual client.
  2. To manually start the client:
    1. Create a directory to use as the mount point (for example, mkdir /mnt/sansfs).
    2. Change to the base/client/bin directory, where base is the base directory (for example, chdir /usr/tank/client/bin).
    3. Type insmod driver_file_name and press Enter to load the kernel extension into Linux.
    4. Type ./stfsclient –create [client_name] server_IP_address[:port] –converter 8859-1 [–devices=pat=pattern] and press Enter to create an instance of the SAN File System client, called virtual client, where
      client_name
      The name of the SAN File System client. The default is the host name of the client machine.
      server_IP_address
      The IP address of the metadata server machine.
      port
      The port of the metadata server machine. The default port is 1700.
      –devices=pat=pattern
      The candidate list is made up of those devices that have device-special files whose file name matches the specified pattern. The default is –devices=pat=/dev/sd*[a-z], where * represents any alphabetic characters (a-z).
    5. Type ./stfsmount client_name mount_point and press Enter to mount the specified file system, where
      client_name
      The name of the client that you specified in step 2.d.
      mount_point
      The directory that you specified in step 2.a.

Parent topic: Starting a client

Related concepts
Clients

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Stopping a Linux client

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