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Page 1: ...m novdocx en 6 April 2007 OES 2 NetWare Traditional File System Administration Guide Open Enterprise Server 2 S e p te m b e r 2 0 0 7 N E T W A R E T R A D I T I O N A L F I L E S Y S T E M A D M I N...

Page 2: ...or re export to entities on the current U S export exclusion lists or to any embargoed or terrorist countries as specified in the U S export laws You agree to not use deliverables for prohibited nucle...

Page 3: ...emarks For a list of Novell trademarks see the Novell Trademark and Service Mark list http www novell com company legal trademarks tmlist html Third Party Materials All third party trademarks are the...

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Page 5: ...of a Traditional Volume 21 3 11 Setting the Space Quota for a Traditional Volume 22 3 12 Salvaging and Purging Files 22 3 13 Loading and Installing Name Spaces on a Traditional Volume 22 3 14 Storing...

Page 6: ...te Verify 44 7 1 3 For 16 Bit Disk Adapters Increase the Number of Reserved Buffers Below 16 MB 44 7 1 4 Use Drivers that Support Scatter Gather Functionality 44 7 1 5 Provide a Disk Large Enough for...

Page 7: ...Contents 7 novdocx en 6 April 2007 8 9 Resolving Volume Mounting Problems Caused by the Name Space Module 55...

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Page 9: ...n page 51 Audience This guide is intended for system administrators of a NetWare server that uses NetWare Traditional file systems Feedback We want to hear your comments and suggestions about this man...

Page 10: ...demark An asterisk denotes a third party trademark When a single pathname can be written with a backslash for some platforms or a forward slash for other platforms the pathname is presented with a bac...

Page 11: ...e This section discusses the following key concepts Section 1 1 NetWare Traditional Volumes on page 11 Section 1 2 Traditional Volume Segments on page 12 Section 1 3 What s Next on page 13 1 1 NetWare...

Page 12: ...rties contains the following information The NetWare server the physical volume resides on The volume name recorded when the volume was initialized on the server for example sys The volume s owner Spa...

Page 13: ...elow to determine where next to go in this document Task Reference Configure and manage Traditional NetWare partitions and volumes Chapter 3 Configuring and Managing NetWare Traditional Volumes on pag...

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Page 15: ...ine which parallels the NSS role for storage management on physical servers For information see Using NSS in a Virtual Guest Server Environment in the OES 2 NSS File System Administration Guide For in...

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Page 17: ...on page 21 Section 3 10 Expanding the Size of a Traditional Volume on page 21 Section 3 11 Setting the Space Quota for a Traditional Volume on page 22 Section 3 12 Salvaging and Purging Files on page...

Page 18: ...ree space on the disk to create a Traditional volume With Traditional volumes you assign physical volume segments from physical partitions on multiple devices There are physical limitations in how you...

Page 19: ...This option means you are making the partition capable of being part of a mirror group You do not actually create the group until you add another mirrored partition to the partition you are creating E...

Page 20: ...able the Long namespace see Section 3 13 Loading and Installing Name Spaces on a Traditional Volume on page 22 1b For each volume you want to delete locate the volume then click the Delete link next t...

Page 21: ...o mount the volume when you create it Otherwise you can mount it later 5 Click Create then click OK to confirm 6 After creating a volume you must mount it in order to use it Locate the newly created v...

Page 22: ...Loading and Installing Name Spaces on a Traditional Volume 1 In Novell Remote Manager for NetWare click Manage Servers Volumes 2 Locate the volume you want to view then click the Name Spaces link next...

Page 23: ...lume_size in MB block_size in MB Round the size up to the highest number For example adding Macintosh name space to a 100 MB volume with a block size of 4 MB would require 1 MB of additional memory 0...

Page 24: ...rtition a name label You can rename the partition by modifying the label You can also delete the label Naming or Renaming the Partition Label 1 In Novell Remote Manager for NetWare click Manage Server...

Page 25: ...Vrepair utility autoloads it uses the default options If you want to use an alternate option load the Vrepair utility manually and set the alternate option before running the Vrepair utility NOTE If...

Page 26: ...the Vrepair utility to log errors in a text file Select Option 3 to stop the volume repair Select Option 4 to continue with a volume repair after you have stopped it 5 When the repair is complete ans...

Page 27: ...us For a general description of the Map command see MAP in the OES 2 Utilities Reference When users log in their network search drive is mapped to the current_wpr Directory Map object which points to...

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Page 29: ...sion completes NetWare replaces the original with the compressed version of the file if no errors occurred If errors do occur during compression NetWare leaves the original version intact This section...

Page 30: ...anagement ServicesTM SMSTM can back up and restore files in their compressed state Other applications might decompress them Compressed Volumes Remain Compressed The File Compression attribute can be t...

Page 31: ...Compression Use the set command s parameter named Days Untouched Before Compression to set this interval of inactivity This parameter specifies the number of days that must pass without access to a f...

Page 32: ...eted Files on page 32 Section 4 2 3 Purging Deleted Files on page 33 4 2 1 Configuring Salvage for All NSS Volumes on the Server By default all volumes on the server can optionally use the salvage fea...

Page 33: ...irst out in any of the salvageable areas Purged files cannot be salvaged To purge files and directories as they are deleted use one of these methods Use the set command at the NetWare server console t...

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Page 35: ...g activity in a software RAID1 device which can slightly impact the CPU performance for the server Adding additional mirrors after the first contributes to availability but it also incrementally impac...

Page 36: ...the mirror group All member partitions in the software RAID1 device must have the same sharable status Either all are sharable for clustering or all are not Partitions you add to the software RAID1 de...

Page 37: ...partitions on several smaller disks are mirrored to similarly sized partitions on one larger disk In this configuration if any of the small disks fail the data on the volume segments can be recovered...

Page 38: ...rtition to one of the mirror groups in the list 7 Complete the required fields click Create then click OK to confirm your decision If this is a mirrored partition NetWare displays the status as 100 mi...

Page 39: ...vices for Data Fault Tolerance 39 novdocx en 6 April 2007 This initiates the resynchronization process for the mirror group that contains the partition you selected 2 Check the mirror status to confir...

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Page 41: ...KB The default stripe size is 64 KB Each segment in the software RAID0 configuration should come from a different device You can obtain segments from the same device but this can severely impede the...

Page 42: ...s in the OES 2 NSS File System Administration Guide After you create the RAID0 use Novell Remote Manager for NetWare to create a Traditional volume on the device Make sure to use the RAID0 for your se...

Page 43: ...y for Traditional Volumes There are several options for increasing the capacity of your storage disks Section 7 1 1 Saving Disk Space with Block Suballocation on page 43 Section 7 1 2 Disable Read Aft...

Page 44: ...the Reserved Buffers Below 16 MB parameter to its upper limit 300 The parameter is found in Monitor Available Options Server Parameters Memory For instructions see SET in the OES 2 Utilities Referenc...

Page 45: ...tional Volumes on page 46 7 2 1 Change Concurrent Disk and Directory Writes for Faster Reads for Traditional Volumes Use this procedure if your server is slow to respond to read requests NOTE This pro...

Page 46: ...7 3 2 Change Disk and Directory Caching for Faster Writes on page 47 Section 7 3 3 Turn Off Read After Write Verification on page 47 7 3 1 Increase the Number of Concurrent Writes You can increase the...

Page 47: ...an increase the chance of directory tables becoming corrupted If the parameter is currently at the default value of 0 5 seconds try increasing the value to 2 seconds Increase the value of the Maximum...

Page 48: ...w Size 4194304 Volume TTS Log File Overflow Size 4194304 Auto TTS Backout Flag On TTS Abort Dump Flag Off TTS UnWritten Cache Wait Time 1 minute 5 9 seconds TTS Backout File Truncation Wait Time 59 mi...

Page 49: ...te Wait Time 5 minutes 29 6 seconds Allow Deletion Of Active Directories On Maximum Percent of Volume Space Allowed for Extended Attributes 10 Maximum Extended Attributes per File or Path 16 Purge Fil...

Page 50: ...e Gain 20 Enable File Compression On Maximum Concurrent Compressions 2 Convert Compressed To Uncompressed Option 1 Decompress Percent Disk Space Free To Allow Commit 10 XXX Decompress Free Space Warni...

Page 51: ...e 55 8 1 Resolving File I O Errors To resolve a file I O error try one or more of the following Make sure that the volume especially volume sys is mounted If the volume is out of disk space error mess...

Page 52: ...talled correctly The IBM PC Cluster sends a broadcast message during initialization then stops processing if the network is not cabled or terminated properly Check the network boards in all workstatio...

Page 53: ...wer than 20 add more memory to your server Minor errors usually correct themselves through normal network use For example if a FAT entry is wrong the entry is updated and corrected the next time the t...

Page 54: ...lume mounts and you can back up the data Have all users log out then unload all NLM programs except the volume s disk drivers Dismount any mounted volumes To remove the name space on a Traditional vol...

Page 55: ...the server To resolve problems when a Traditional volume cannot mount because the name space NLM program is not loaded do the following Load the name space NLM program then mount the volume Copy the n...

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