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