Novell Open Enterprise Server 2 Users Manual OES

2015-02-05

• OES 2: NetWare Traditional File System Administration Guide
• About This Guide
• 1 Overview of the NetWare Traditional File System
  • 1.1 NetWare Traditional Volumes
    • 1.1.1 What Happens When You Mount a Traditional Volume
    • 1.1.2 Traditional Volume Objects in eDirectory
  • 1.2 Traditional Volume Segments
  • 1.3 What’s Next
• 2 Using NetWare Traditional Volumes in a Virtual Guest Server Environment
• 3 Configuring and Managing NetWare Traditional Volumes
  • 3.1 Using Novell Remote Manager for NetWare
  • 3.2 Managing NetWare Partitions for Traditional Volumes
  • 3.3 Creating a NetWare Partition for Traditional Volumes
  • 3.4 Expanding the Size of a NetWare Partition
  • 3.5 Unmirroring a Mirrored NetWare Partition
  • 3.6 Deleting a NetWare Partition
  • 3.7 Creating and Mounting a Traditional Volume
  • 3.8 Mounting a Traditional Volume
  • 3.9 Dismounting a Traditional Volume
  • 3.10 Expanding the Size of a Traditional Volume
  • 3.11 Setting the Space Quota for a Traditional Volume
  • 3.12 Salvaging and Purging Files
  • 3.13 Loading and Installing Name Spaces on a Traditional Volume
  • 3.14 Storing Non-DOS Files on a Traditional Volume
    • 3.14.1 Calculating Memory Required for Name Space Support
    • 3.14.2 Adding a Name Space
    • 3.14.3 Removing Name Spaces
  • 3.15 Creating an eDirectory Object for a Traditional Volume
  • 3.16 Naming or Renaming a Traditional NetWare Partition or Volume
  • 3.17 Deleting a Traditional Volume
  • 3.18 Repairing a Traditional Volume
    • 3.18.1 Prerequisites
    • 3.18.2 Procedure
  • 3.19 Protecting Data: Disk Mirroring and Duplexing
  • 3.20 Using Directory Map Objects
  • 3.21 Upgrading Media Format from Traditional Volumes to NSS Volumes
• 4 Configuring Advanced Features for Traditional Volumes
  • 4.1 Compressing and Decompressing Files
    • 4.1.1 Planning for File Compression
    • 4.1.2 Setting Server-Level File Compression Attributes
    • 4.1.3 Enabling File Compression for a Traditional Volume
    • 4.1.4 Disabling File Compression for a Traditional Volume
    • 4.1.5 Suspending File Compression
  • 4.2 Salvaging and Purging Files
    • 4.2.1 Configuring Salvage for All NSS Volumes on the Server
    • 4.2.2 Salvaging Deleted Files
    • 4.2.3 Purging Deleted Files
• 5 Using Software RAID1 Devices for Data Fault Tolerance
  • 5.1 Planning Your Software RAID1 Device
    • 5.1.1 Fault Tolerance for Traditional Volumes
    • 5.1.2 Key Concepts for Mirroring Traditional NetWare Partitions
    • 5.1.3 Improving Fault Tolerance for Software RAID1 Devices with Duplexing
    • 5.1.4 Example Software RAID1 Solution for Fault Tolerance of Traditional Volumes
  • 5.2 Managing Traditional Software RAID1 Devices
    • 5.2.1 Mirroring Partitions
    • 5.2.2 Unmirroring Partitions
    • 5.2.3 Recovering Data from an Out of Sync Disk
• 6 Using Software RAID0 Devices to Enhance Disk I/O Performance
  • 6.1 Planning Your Software RAID0 Device
  • 6.2 Managing Traditional Software RAID0 Devices
• 7 Optimizing Disk and Cache Performance for Traditional Volumes
  • 7.1 Optimizing Storage Disk Capacity for Traditional Volumes
    • 7.1.1 Saving Disk Space with Block Suballocation
    • 7.1.2 Disable Read-After-Write-Verify
    • 7.1.3 For 16-Bit Disk Adapters, Increase the Number of Reserved Buffers Below 16 MB
    • 7.1.4 Use Drivers that Support Scatter/Gather Functionality
    • 7.1.5 Provide a Disk Large Enough for a Memory Core Dump
    • 7.1.6 Select Segments for Volumes from Different Disks
    • 7.1.7 Monitor Free Space in Volumes
  • 7.2 Improving Disk Reads on Traditional Volumes
    • 7.2.1 Change Concurrent Disk and Directory Writes for Faster Reads for Traditional Volumes
    • 7.2.2 Change the Turbo FAT Wait Time for Faster Reads of Traditional Volumes
  • 7.3 Improving Disk Writes for Traditional Volumes
    • 7.3.1 Increase the Number of Concurrent Writes
    • 7.3.2 Change Disk and Directory Caching for Faster Writes
    • 7.3.3 Turn Off Read-After-Write Verification
  • 7.4 Configuring SET Parameters for the NetWare Traditional File System
  • 7.5 Configuring Common File System SET Parameters for NetWare
• 8 Troubleshooting
  • 8.1 Resolving File I/O Errors
  • 8.2 Resolving Volume I/O Errors
  • 8.3 Resolving Problems When the Server Hangs after Mounting the Last Volume
  • 8.4 Resolving Problems When No Volumes Mount
  • 8.5 Resolving Problems When Only Some Volumes Mount
  • 8.6 Resolving Disk Error Problems When a Volume is Mounting
  • 8.7 Resolving Memory Errors When a Volume Is Mounting
  • 8.8 Resolving Volume Mounting Problems Caused by Corrupted Directory Entry Tables or File Allocation Tables
  • 8.9 Resolving Volume Mounting Problems Caused by the Name Space Module