Chapter 4 - Configuring Advanced Bucket Management
Create a Storage Domain
7.
Select the
LTFS File Name
option for the storage domain.
Note:
This setting only applies to tape media. If the storage domain includes tape
partition(s), you must specify the
LTFS File Name
option for the storage domain.
This option specifies how the system names the file when it writes them to tape.
There are two options for the
LTFS File Name
:
•
Object Name
— LTFS file names use the format {
bucket name
}/{
object name
}, for example
bucket1/video1.mov. Object names must comply with LTFS file naming rules. If the
tapes are ejected from the BlackPearl system and loaded into a non-BlackPearl tape
partition, the file names match the object names.
Notes:
• The colon character (:) is not allowed in LTFS file names and therefore not
allowed in BlackPearl object names. The slash character (/) is also technically
not allowed in LTFS file names; however, the BlackPearl software can
accommodate a slash in the object name and translates it as a directory in the
LTFS file system (e.g. directory1/directory2/video1.mov).
• Spectra Logic does not recommend the following characters in LTFS file names
or BlackPearl object names for reasons of cross-platform compatibility: control
characters such as carriage return (CR) and line feed (LF), double quotation
mark (“), asterisk (*), question mark (?), less than sign (<), greater than sign (>),
backslash (\), forward slash (/) vertical line (|).
•
Object ID
— LTFS file names use the format {
bucket name
}/{
object id
}, for example
bucket1/1fc6f09c-dd72-41ea-8043-0491ab8a6d82. Object names do not need to comply
with LTFS file naming rules. The system saves object names as LTFS extended
attributes allowing any third party application to reconstruct all the data including
the object names.
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