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OES 2: NetWare Traditional File System Administration Guide
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Open Enterprise Server
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NETWARE TRADITIONAL FILE
September 2007
SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION GUIDE
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novdocx (en) 6 April 2007 Contents About This Guide 9 1 Overview of the NetWare Traditional File System 11 1.1 NetWare Traditional Volumes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 1.1.1 What Happens When You Mount a Traditional Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 1.1.2 Traditional Volume Objects in eDirectory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 1.2 Traditional Volume Segments . . . . .
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novdocx (en) 6 April 2007 4.1.5 Suspending File Compression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 4.2 Salvaging and Purging Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 4.2.1 Configuring Salvage for All NSS Volumes on the Server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 4.2.2 Salvaging Deleted Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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novdocx (en) 6 April 2007 8.9 Resolving Volume Mounting Problems Caused by the Name Space Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Contents 7
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novdocx (en) 6 April 2007 8 OES 2: NetWare Traditional File System Administration Guide
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novdocx (en) 6 April 2007 About This Guide ® This guide discusses how to configure and manage the NetWare Traditional File System for ® Novell Open Enterprise Server 2 NetWare and NetWare 6.5 SP7. The guide is divided into the following sections: Chapter 1, “Overview of the NetWare Traditional File System,” on page 11 Chapter 2, “Using NetWare Traditional Volumes in a Virtual Guest Server Environment,” on page 15 Chapter 3, “Configuring and Managing NetWare Traditional Volumes,” on page 1
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novdocx (en) 6 April 2007 1Overview of the NetWare 1 Traditional File System ® The NetWare Traditional File System provides legacy storage and file system management for ® Novell Open Enterprise Server NetWare. TM The Novell Storage Services File System (NSS) provides the primary system for storage and file management for NetWare. The NetWare operating system and its extensions are installed on an NSS pool and volume, named sys. For information, see “Comparison of NSS on NetWare and the N
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novdocx (en) 6 April 2007 1.1.1 What Happens When You Mount a Traditional Volume When you boot a NetWare server, each Traditional volume is mounted, meaning the following: The volume becomes visible to the operating system. The volume’s File Allocation Table (FAT) is loaded into memory. A single block of data in the file takes up one entry in the FAT. Because of this, volumes with a smaller block size require more server memory to mount and manage, and it takes longer to mount the volume.
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novdocx (en) 6 April 2007 A single disk can contain volume segments from multiple volumes. If a single disk fails, each volume segment on it fails, causing all of the volumes that have volume segments on that server disk to fail. To achieve fault tolerance, you should protect the volumes against disk failure by setting up a software RAID 1 (mirroring) device for the partitions. See “Using Software RAID1 Devices for Data Fault Tolerance” on page 35. You can add volume segments to a Tradition
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novdocx (en) 6 April 2007 14 OES 2: NetWare Traditional File System Administration Guide
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novdocx (en) 6 April 2007 2Using NetWare Traditional 2 Volumes in a Virtual Guest Server Environment ® NetWare Traditional volumes can be used on NetWare guest servers in a virtualized environment ® TM just as they are on physical NetWare servers. Novell Storage Services (NSS) is responsible for managing virtual devices for the virtual machine, which parallels the NSS role for storage management on physical servers. For information, see “Using NSS in a Virtual Guest Server Environment” in
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novdocx (en) 6 April 2007 3Configuring and Managing 3 NetWare Traditional Volumes ® ® You manage the NetWare Traditional File System volumes with Novell Remote Manager for NetWare. For information about this management tool, see OES 2: Novell Remote Manager for NetWare Administration Guide. This section discusses the following file and directory management tasks: Section 3.1, “Using Novell Remote Manager for NetWare,” on page 17 Section 3.2, “Managing NetWare Partitions for Traditional Vo
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novdocx (en) 6 April 2007 2 Type your administrator username (such as admin) and password. 3 Click OK. The management interface opens in your Web browser. The Partition Disks page displays the server disk’s layout according to the physical connections in your server. It uses indentation to indicate where a volume physically resides. It lists adapters, devices, partitions, Traditional volumes, and free space at different levels of indentation. Depending on what tasks can be performed on the l
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novdocx (en) 6 April 2007 3.3 Creating a NetWare Partition for Traditional Volumes The first task for setting up the NetWare Traditional file system is to create partitions on your storage devices. The maximum supported partition size for Traditional NetWare partitions is 4 GB. 1 In Novell Remote Manager for NetWare, click Manage Server > Partition Disks. 2 Locate the device that you want to create the partition on, then click the Create link next to it. 3 In the Partition Type drop-down li
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novdocx (en) 6 April 2007 This removes the partition from the mirror group. You can now delete the partition, if desired. 3.6 Deleting a NetWare Partition If you delete a partition, you destroy all volumes and data on that partition. If the partition is mirrored, the other partitions in the mirror group retains the data from the deleted partition. Before you can delete a mirrored partition, unmirror the partition, then delete it. Unmirror a Partition 1 In Novell Remote Manager for NetWare, c
