Use NFS for Oracle Software

Overview

I am using NFS on NARRABRI to store the Oracle installation software. This procedure is for enabling the NFS share on the client.

Reference

• Oracle® Linux Administrator's Guide for Release 7

  • Part III Storage and File Systems

    • Chapter 22 Shared File System Administration

      • 22.2 About NFS

        • 22.2.2 Mounting an NFS File System

• Enable DIRECTNFS for Oracle RDBMS 12.1.0.2

• Michael Kerrisk - man7.org

  • cat

  • mkdir

  • mount

  • yum

Procedure

Install NFS Client

Following the procedure in 22.2.2 Mounting an NFS File System, I installed the NFS client software as follows:

sudo yum install nfs-utils 

The output is attached as nfs-utils_install.log.

Note

If this package is not installed, the following message will appear upon mount:

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on narrabri.yaocm.id.au:/data/Software,
      missing codepage or helper program, or other error
      (for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might
      need a /sbin/mount. helper program)

      In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
      dmesg | tail or so.

Remainder

I followed the procedure in Enable DIRECTNFS for Oracle RDBMS 12.1.0.2 with the following variations:

• • The NFS share is called Software.

  • The mount point is called /opt/share/software.

  • The mount options are version 4 and read-only.

The commands (issued by root) were:

mkdir -p /opt/share/Software
cat >>/etc/fstab <<DONE
# Software share on local LAN
narrabri.yaocm.id.au:/data/Software /opt/share/Software nfs4 ro,bg,hard,nointr,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,tcp,vers=4,timeo=600
DONE
mount /opt/share/Software