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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

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

samu Operator Utility at a Glance

Overview of the samu Operator Utility

How to Start the samu Utility

How to Display a samu Screen

How to Stop samu

Interacting With samu

Identifying a Device

Accessing Online Help

Operator Displays

(a) - Archiver Status Display

Navigation

Sample Display

Field Descriptions

(c) - Device Configuration Display

Navigation

Sample Display

Field Descriptions

(C) - Memory Display

Sample Display

(d) - Daemon Trace Controls Display

Sample Display

(D) - Disk Volume Dictionary

Sample Display

Flags

(f) - File Systems Display

Sample Display

Field Descriptions

(F) - Optical Disc Label Display

(h) - Help Display

Navigation

Sample Display

(I) - Inode Display

Navigation

Sample Display

(J) - Preview Shared Memory Display

Navigation

Sample Display

(K) - Kernel Statistics Display

Navigation

Sample Display

(l) - Usage Display

Sample Display

(L) - Shared Memory Tables

Sample Display

(m) - Mass Storage Status Display

Sample Display

Field Descriptions

(M) - Shared Memory Display

Navigation

Sample Display

(n) - Staging Status Display

Sample Display

(N) - File System Parameters Display

Navigation

Sample Display

(o) - Optical Disc Status Display

Navigation

Sample Display

Field Descriptions

(p) - Removable Media Load Requests Display

Navigation

Sample Display

Field Descriptions

Flags

(P) - Active Services Display

Navigation

Sample Display

(r) - Removable Media Status Display

Sample Display

Field Descriptions

(R) - Sun SAM-Remote Information Display

(s) - Device Status Display

Navigation

Sample Display

Field Descriptions

(S) - Sector Data Display

Navigation

(t) - Tape Drive Status Display

Navigation

Sample Display

Field Descriptions

(T) - SCSI Sense Data Display

Navigation

(u) - Staging Queue Display

Navigation

Sample Display

Field Descriptions

(U) - Device Table Display

Navigation

Sample Display

(v) - Automated Library Catalog Display

Navigation

Sample Display

Field Descriptions

Flags

(w) - Pending Stage Queue

Navigation

Sample Display

Field Descriptions

Status Codes

Removable Media Device Display Status Codes

File System Display Status Codes

States of an Operator Display Device

How to Change a Drive State From down to on

Operator Commands

Device Commands

File System Commands: I/O Management

The flush_behind Command

force_nfs_async and noforce_nfs_async Commands

readahead Command

sw_raid and nosw_raid Commands

writebehind Command

wr_throttle Command

File System Commands: Direct I/O Management

dio_rd_form_min and dio_wr_form_min Commands

dio_rd_ill_min and dio_wr_ill_min Commands

dio_rd_consec and dio_wr_consec Commands

dio_szero and nodio_szero Commands

forcedirectio and noforcedirectio Commands

File System Commands: Sun QFS Shared File Systems

meta_timeo Command

mh_write and nomh_write Commands

minallocsz and maxallocsz Commands

rdlease, wrlease, and aplease Commands

File System Commands: Miscellaneous

abr and noabr Commands

dmr and nodmr Commands

invalid interval Command

mm_stripe Command

qwrite and noqwrite Commands

refresh_at_eof and norefresh_at_eof Commands

suid and nosuid Commands

stripe Command

sync_meta Command

trace and notrace Commands

Miscellaneous Commands

clear vsn Command

devlog Command

diskvols flag Command

dtrace Commands

fs Command

mount Command

open Command

read Command

refresh Command

snap Command

! shell-command Command

samu Operator Utility at a Glance

Option
Description
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a
Displays archiver status
c
Displays device configuration
C
Displays memory information
d
Displays traced events
D
Displays the disk volume dictionary
f
Displays the components of a Sun QFS file systems
F
Displays the label on an optical disk
h
Displays a summary of the available samu(1M) displays
I
Displays the content of inodes
J
Displays the shared memory segment for the preview queue
K
Displays kernel statistics
l
Displays usage information for the file system
L
Displays the location of shared memory tables and system defaults in shared memory
m
Displays the status of mass storage mounted file systems and member drives
N
Displays information about the file system
o
Displays the status of optical disc drives
p
Displays pending load requests for removable media
P
Displays the services registered with the Sun QFS single-port multiplexer
r
Displays the activity of removable media devices
R
Displays information about and the status of Sun SAM-Remote configurations
s
Displays the status for configured devices
S
Displays raw device data
t
Displays the satus of all configured tape drives
T
Displays the SCSI status of a SCSI device
u
Displays the list of files in the staging queue
U
Displays the device table in a human-readable form
v
Displays the location and VSN of all cataloged disks or tapes
w
Displays pending stage requests with unloaded volumes
down
Terminates operation on device
idle
Restricts access to device by preventing new connections
off
Logically turns off device
on
Logically turns on device
unavail
Makes device unavailable for use with the file system
unload
Unloads the mounted media for the specified removable media device
nalloc
Prohibits any future allocation to the device
alloc
Re-enables allocation to the device
flush_behind
Controls whether modified pages are written to disk asynchronously
force_nfs_async

noforce_nfs_async

Controls whether the file system caches NFS data written to the server
sw_raid

nosw_raid

Controls whether the file system aligns the writebehind buffer.
readahead
Sets the maximum number of bytes that can be read ahead by the file system
writebehind
Sets the maximum number of bytes that can be written behind by a file system.
wr_throttle
Sets the number of outstanding write kilobytes for one file.
dio_rd_form_min
Sets the minimum number of blocks for read operations for well-aligned I/O
dio_wr_form_min
Sets the minimum number of blocks for write operations for well-aligned I/O
dio_rd_ill_min
Sets the minimum number of blocks for read operations for misaligned I/O
dio_wr_ill_min
Sets the minimum number of blocks for write operations for misaligned I/O
dio_rd_consec
Sets the number of consecutive read operations that can occur without regard to a buffer size
dio_wr_consec
Sets the number of consecutive write operations that can occur without regard to a buffer size
dio_szero nodio_szero
Controls whether uninitialized areas of sparse files written with direct I/O are zeroed when the area is accessed.
forcedirectio

noforcedirectio

Controls whether direct I/O or buffered I/O is used as the default mode.
meta_timeo
Sets the time limit for the Sun QFS shared file system metadata cache
mh_write

nomh_write

Controls whether to allow multihost read and write operations
minallocsz
Sets the minimum number of allocated blocks
maxallocsz
Sets the maximum number of allocated blocks
rdlease
Sets the amount of time for read leases
wrlease
Sets the amount of time for write leases
aplease
Sets the amount of time for append leases
abr noabr
Controls the application binary recovery (ABR) mount option.
dmr nodmr
Controls the direct mirror reads (DMR) mount option.
invalid
Sets the number of seconds that the file system holds cached attributes
mm_stripe
Sets the number of disk allocation units for the metadata stripe width
qwrite noqwrite
Controls whether read and write operations to the same file are performed simultaneously from different threads
refresh_at_eof

norefresh_at_eof

Controls whether Sun QFS hosts update file sizes
suid nosuid
Controls whether running programs can change their owner IDs
stripe
Sets the stripe width for the file system to the specified number of disk allocation units
sync_meta
Controls whether metadata is written to disk immediately
trace notrace
Controls whether a file system uses the trace feature
clear
Removes the specified volume from the Removable Media Mount Requests display
devlog
Specifies one or more events to be logged
diskvols
Controls the flags in the disk volume dictionary
dtrace
Control the DTrace feature for one or more processes
fs
Sets the default file system
mount
Specifies a Sun QFS file system
open
Enables access to a disk device
read
Reads the specified sector from an open disk device
refresh
Sets the amount of time between samu(1M) screen refreshes
snap
Sends a copy of an operator display to file
!
Enables you to run a shell command within the samu(1M) operator utility