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Preface

1.  About Sun QFS and Sun Storage Archive Manager

What Is Sun QFS?

What Is Sun Storage Archive Manager (SAM-QFS)?

What You Can Do With SAM-QFS

What Is the SAM-QFS Manager?

SAM-Remote

High Availability File System Configuration Using Oracle Solaris Cluster (HA-QFS)

High Availability Archiving Configuration Using Oracle Solaris Cluster (HA-SAM)

About Shared File Systems and the Linux Client

2.  Planning Your Environment

3.  Preparing for Installation

4.  Release Package Contents, Directories, and Files

5.  Installing Sun QFS and SAM-QFS

6.  Installing and Configuring SAM-QFS Manager

7.  Configuring the File System Environment

8.  Setting Up Mount Parameters and Initializing the File System Environment

9.  Backing Up SAM-QFS Data and Files

10.  Upgrading Sun QFS and SAM-QFS

11.  Uninstalling the SAM-QFS Manager Software

12.  Installing Sun QFS and Sun Storage Archive Manager -- Quick Start

About Shared File Systems and the Linux Client

A shared file system is a distributed, multihost file system that you can mount on multiple Oracle Solaris operating system (OS) hosts. One Oracle Solaris OS host acts as the metadata server and the others act as clients. You can also designate one or more clients as potential metadata servers, enabling you to switch metadata servers.

Within a shared file system, the Sun QFS software can be installed on Linux clients as well as on Oracle Solaris clients. Unlike a shared Sun QFS Oracle Solaris client, the Linux client is restricted to client-only behavior. It cannot be configured as a potential metadata server. The Linux client supports interaction with SAM-QFS software, but has Sun QFS file system functionality only.

The Sun QFS software functionality is largely the same for the Oracle Solaris and Linux clients. For more information about the Sun QFS Linux client software, see Using Sun QFS and Sun Storage Archive Manager on Linux Clients.