Hello

I am trying to install linux ltfssde-2.4.5.1-10503-RHEL8.x86_64.rpm file on Rocky Linux 8.8. 

I have no issue with the install but I am unable to get the service running...

systemctl status ltfssde
● ltfssde.service - IBM Spectrum Archive SDE
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/ltfssde.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (exited) since Tue 2023-07-18 18:45:59 CEST; 15h ago
  Process: 1251 ExecStart=/opt/ibm/ltfssde/share/ltfs/ltfssde start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 1251 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
    Tasks: 0 (limit: 151629)
   Memory: 0B
   CGroup: /system.slice/ltfssde.service

Jul 18 18:45:59 ltfs-linux-localdomain systemd[1]: Starting IBM Spectrum Archive SDE...
Jul 18 18:45:59 ltfs-linux-localdomain systemd[1]: Started IBM Spectrum Archive SDE.

systemctl list-units --type=service --state=active
ltfssde.service                                    loaded active exited  IBM Spectrum Archive SDE 

cd /etc/systemd/system/
[admin@ltfs-linux-localdomain system]$ sudo ./ltfssde.service
sudo: ./ltfssde.service: command not found

Does anyone have an idea what I am doing wrong?

Thank you

Hi,

The service definition of `ltfssde.service` is  NOT usable for mounting the filesystem. It is just installed for forcibly unmounting LTFS tape at unexpected server power off. You need to use the `ltfs` command to mount the tape as a filesystem.

1. See https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-archive-sde/2.4.5?topic=system-installing-upgrading-from-binary-rpm-file for installing and configureing your search path

2. See https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-archive-sde/2.4.5?topic=systems-mounting-tape-media for how to use the `ltfs` command to mount a tape

Hello

Thank you for your reply.

I have not got the lftsservice working as such but I did manage to get the LTO tapes to mount in the end.

 I had to launch the ltfs command directly where the ltfs file is ... which on my installation was 

/opt/ibm/ltfsde/bin/ltfs

I also had to put the device path which for me was /dev/st01 and not the path in the mount command example.

Thank you