5.2 Enabling Hard Links After the Media Upgrade

When NSS32-bit pools are moved to OES 2015 or later, the pools and their volumes are automatically media upgraded to support hard links. All new pools are by default media upgraded to support hard links.

After the media is upgraded successfully, you must set the Hard Links attribute on volumes where you want to create hard links. The Hard Links attribute is automatically enabled if there are existing hard links on the volume. For information about using hard links on NSS volumes, see Section 25.0, Managing Hard Links.

IMPORTANT:Do not attempt to enable the Hard Links attribute until the upgrade process is complete.

  1. Issue the following commands at the NSS Console (nsscon) as the root user.

    Command

    Description

    		 
    nss /HardLinks=volumename

    Enables the Hard Links attribute for a specified volume. This enables hard links to be created on the volume.

    		 
    nss /HardLinks=all

    Enables the Hard Links attribute for all NSS volumes on the server. This enables hard links to be created on any volume on the server. Any given hard link can point only to a file on the same volume.

  2. You can verify that the hard links attribute is set for the volume by entering the following command at the NSS Console (nsscon):

    volumes

    The Hard Links attribute appears in the Attributes column for volumes where it is enabled.