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Sun QFS File System 5.3 Configuration and Administration Guide     Sun QFS and Sun Storage Archive Manager 5.3 Information Library
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Preface

1.  File System Overview

General File System Configurations

File System Features

Volume Management

Support for Paged and Direct I/O

High Capacity

Fast File System Recovery

Metadata Storage

vnode Interface

Shared File System Support

Additional File System Features

Sun QFS File Systems Design Basics

Inode Files and File Characteristics

Specifying Disk Allocation Units

DAU Settings and File System Geometry

ms and ma File Systems

Dual and Single Allocation Schemes

Data Alignment

Stripe Widths on Data Disks

Stripe Widths on ms File Systems

Stripe Widths on ma File Systems Not Using Striped Groups

Stripe Widths on ma File Systems Using Striped Groups

Stripe Widths on Metadata Disks

File Allocation Methods

Metadata Allocation

Round-Robin Allocation

Striped Allocation

Striped Groups

Mismatched Striped Groups

Example of a Mismatched Striped Group

Per-Logical Unit Number (LUN) Allocation Control

2.  About the Master Configuration File

3.  mcf File Examples

4.  Configuring the File System

5.  Configuring a Shared File System

6.  Administering File System Quotas

7.  Advanced File System Topics

8.  SMB Service in SAM-QFS

9.  Configuring WORM-FS File Systems

10.  Tunable Parameters

11.  Using QFS File Systems with SANergy (SAN-QFS)

12.  Mount Options in a Shared File System

13.  Using the samu Operator Utility

Chapter 1

File System Overview

The Sun QFS file system is a configurable file system that presents a standard UNIX file system interface to users.