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The features and behavior changes noted in this section were made for the SUSE
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Linux Enterprise
Server 11 release.
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Section 2.1, “EVMS2 Is Deprecated,” on page 21
Š Section 2.2, “Ext3 as the Default File System,” on page 21
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Section 2.3, “JFS File System Is Deprecated,” on page 21
Š Section 2.4, “OCFS2 File System Is in the High Availability Release,” on page 22
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Section 2.5, “/dev/disk/by-name Is Deprecated,” on page 22
Š Section 2.6, “Device Name Persistence in the /dev/disk/by-id Directory,” on page 22
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Section 2.7, “Filters for Multipathed Devices,” on page 22
Š Section 2.8, “User-Friendly Names for Multipathed Devices,” on page 23
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Section 2.9, “Advanced I/O Load-Balancing Options for Multipath,” on page 23
Š Section 2.10, “Location Change for Multipath Tool Callouts,” on page 23
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Section 2.11, “Change from mpath to multipath for mkinitrd -f Option,” on page 23
2.1 EVMS2 Is Deprecated
The Enterprise Volume Management Systems (EVMS2) storage management solution is deprecated.
All EVMS management modules have been removed from the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11
packages. Your EVMS-managed devices should be automatically recognized and managed by Linux
Volume Manager 2 (LVM2) when you upgrade your system. For more information, see
Evolution of
Storage and Volume Management in SUSE Linux Enterprise (http://www.novell.com/linux/
volumemanagement/strategy.html) .
For information about managing storage with EVMS2 on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, see the
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP3: Storage Administration Guide (http://www.novell.com/
documentation/sles10/stor_admin/data/bookinfo.html) .
2.2 Ext3 as the Default File System
The Ext3 file system has replaced ReiserFS as the default file system recommended by the YaST
tools at installation time and when you create file systems. ReiserFS is still supported. For more
information, see
File System Future Directions (http://www.novell.com/linux/techspecs.html?tab=0)
on the SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 File System Support Web page.
2.3 JFS File System Is Deprecated
The JFS file system is no longer supported. The JFS utilities were removed from the distribution.