Question about NFS home directories in Linux

[l***@yahoo.ca]

I am confused about the instance owning home directory during physical partition setup. When you install DB2 ESE on different DB2 servers and specify the instance owner db2inst1, are the $HOME directories of db2inst1 users on the different machines supposed to be the same NFS home directory that is shared by the machines? Say I have a shared mount on /db2home on all the machines, am I supposed to change $HOME to /db2home?

Or do you leave $HOME as /home/db2inst1 and just create the database with:
create database mydb on /db2home

[Ian]

Post by l***@yahoo.ca
I am confused about the instance owning home directory during
physical partition setup. When you install DB2 ESE on different DB2
servers and specify the instance owner db2inst1, are the $HOME
directories of db2inst1 users on the different machines supposed to
be the same NFS home directory that is shared by the machines? Say I
have a shared mount on /db2home on all the machines, am I supposed
to change $HOME to /db2home?
Or do you leave $HOME as /home/db2inst1 and just create the database
with: create database mydb on /db2home

If you are using the Database Partitioning Feature (DPF), where one
instance may be spread across multiple servers, then yes: The home
directory ($HOME) must be NFS mounted on all servers.