UForge Repository on Shared Storage

When using shared storage NFS is used to share the information between the various UForge nodes. To setup the NAS or SAN for the UForge Repository you must create two shared directories, one for the operating system data and the other for all the user data (My Software and images generated).

To setup the shared storage:

1. Log in to the machine where the NFS server is running

2. Create the operating system directory, for example: /volume1/DISTROS

   The following NFS options are required:

   *(rw,async,no_wdelay,no_root_squash,insecure_locks,anonuid=0,anongid=0)
   

3. Create the user data directory, for example: /volume1/USER_DATA

   The following NFS options are required:

   *(rw,async,no_wdelay,no_root_squash,insecure_locks,anonuid=0,anongid=0)
   

4. Check the mount points:

   mount 192.20.777.205:/appstore_qualif_data/ /mnt
   su - glassfish
   cd /mnt
   

5. Execute the command:

   touch test
   

6. If it returns:

   touch: cannot touch `test': Permission denied
   
   Then execute the following commands (as root)
   
   .. code-block:: shell
   
           cd /mnt
           chown -R glassfish:glassfish .
   

7. Confirm you can create a file on /mnt as user glassfish. Then perform the following:

   cd ~
   umount /mnt
   

8. Once these directories have been exported, use the UForge Setup Disk to copy all the operating system information to the DISTROS sub-directory. To mount the shared directory on the machine where the UForge Setup Disk is plugged to:

   mount <nfs server ip address>:/volume1/DISTROS /mnt
   

Then copy the DISTROS information from the Setup Disk to the shared directory:

rsync -a –-progress <my disk>/DISTROS/ /mnt/DISTROS/

Note

It may take up to an hour to copy all of the data.