Prerequisites

· Made the planning decisions described in the OSF DCE DFS Administration Guide and Reference. These decisions include the following:

- Choosing the first DFS machine

- Determining the cache size on DFS client machines

- Defining DFS domains

- Setting up your cell's DFS tree structure

- Determining which file system to use for root.dfs

· Created the file system for the root.dfs fileset. This file system can be either a DCE LFS fileset or a non-LFS file system (non-LFS fileset). To use a non-LFS file system, create the file system manually by using your operating system's file system commands. To use a DCE LFS fileset, create a DCE LFS aggregate with the DFS newaggr command.

Before setting up the root.dfs fileset, refer to the OSF DCE DFS Administration Guide and Reference.

Note: The dce_config script configures the Fileset Location Database Server on the machine that exports root.dfs.

· On HP-UX machines, ensured that the kernel is installed on the machine being configured. This kernel, which is available on the installation tree, is named hpux.dfs. To install it, first rename the existing kernel(named /hpux) and then copy hpux.dfs to the / directory, naming it hpux.

For other platforms you should run the DFS kernel that is built during the build process. (For OSF/1 machines, the fsvmunix kernel includes support for both DFS and DCE LFS. The dfsvmunix kernel includes support only for DFS, but requires less disk and memory resources.)