Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 - STORAGE ADMINISTRATION GUIDE 7-2007, Administration Manual

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1.3 Supported File Systems
EVMS supports the following Linux file systems:
Š
EXT3
Š ReiserFS
Š
XFS
Š OCFS2
Š
JFS
Š EXT2
Š
Swap
Š NTFS (read only)
Š
FAT (read only)
For more information about file systems supported in SUSE
®
Linux Enterprise Server 10, see the
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 Installation and Administration Guide. (http://www.novell.com/
documentation/sles10) .
1.4 Terminology
EVMS uses the following terminology in the EVMS user interface:
Table 1-2
EVMS Terms
Regions Manages the combination of
multiple storage objects LVM/LVM2 for containers and
region, MD for RAIDs, and DM for
multipath I/O
EVMS Features Manages EVMS features Drive linking (linear
concatenation), Bad Block
Relocation (BBR), and Snapshot
File System Interface Modules
(FSIM) Manages the interface between
the file system managers and the
segment managers For information, see Section 1.3,
“Supported File Systems,” on
page 12
.
Cluster Manager Interface
Modules Manages the interface between
the cluster manager and the file
systems and devices HeartBeat 2
Term Description
Sector The lowest level that can be addressed on a block device.
Disk A physical disk or a logical device.
Segment An ordered set of physically contiguous sectors on a single device. It is similar
to traditional disk partitions.
Storage Managers Description Plug-Ins