CXFS™ Administration Guide for SGI® InfiniteStorage

Document Number: 007 -4016-020

CONTRIBUTORS

Written by Lori Johnson

Illustrated by Chrystie Danzer

Production by Karen Jacobson

Engineering contributions to the book by Rich Altmaier, Neil Bannister, François Barbou des Places, Ken Beck, Felix Blyakher, Laurie Costello, Mark Cruciani, Dave Ellis, Brian Gaffey, Philippe Gregoire, Dean Jansa, Erik Jacobson, Dennis Kender, Chris Kirby, Ted Kline, Dan Knappe, Kent Koeninger, Linda Lait, Bob LaPreze, Steve Lord, Aaron Mantel, Troy McCorkell, LaNet Merrill, Terry Merth, Nate Pearlstein, Bryce Petty, Alain Renaud, John Relph, Elaine Robinson, Dean Roehrich, Eric Sandeen, Wesley Smith, Kerm Steffenhagen, Paddy Sreenivasan, Andy Tran, Rebecca Underwood, Connie Waring, Geoffrey Wehrman

COPYRIGHT

© 1999-2004 Silicon Graphics, Inc. All rights reserved; provided portions may be copyright in third parties, as indicated elsewhere herein. No permission is granted to copy, distribute, or create derivative works from the contents of this electronic documentation in any manner, in whole or in part, without the prior written permission of Silicon Graphics, Inc.

LIMITED RIGHTS LEGEND

The electronic (software) version of this document was developed at private expense; if acquired under an agreement with the USA government or any contractor thereto, it is acquired as "commercial computer software" subject to the provisions of its applicable license agreement, as specified in (a) 48 CFR 12.212 of the FAR; or, if acquired for Department of Defense units, (b) 48 CFR 227-7202 of the DoD FAR Supplement; or sections succeeding thereto. Contractor/manufacturer is Silicon Graphics, Inc., 1500 Crittenden Lane, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351.

TRADEMARKS AND ATTRIBUTIONS

Silicon Graphics, SGI, the SGI logo, Altix, IRIS, IRIX, O2, Octane, Onyx, Onyx2, Origin, and XFS are registered trademarks and CXFS, FailSafe, IRISconsole, IRIS FailSafe, FDDIXPress, NUMAlink, Octane2, Performance Co-Pilot, Silicon Graphics Fuel, SGI FailSafe, Tezro, and Trusted IRIX are trademarks of Silicon Graphics, Inc., in the United States and/or other countries worldwide.

AIX is a registered trademark of IBM Corporation. Brocade is a trademark of Brocade Communication Systems, Inc. Inc. Digi is a trademark of Digi International, Inc. FLEXlm is a trademark of Macrovision Corporation. Java and Sun are registered trademarks and Solaris is a trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc. HP-UX is a registered trademark of Hewlett-Packard Company. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds, used with permission by Silicon Graphics, Inc. Legato NetWorker is a registered trademark of Legato Systems, Inc. Mac OS is a registered trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. Netscape is a trademark of Netscape Communications Corporation. Red Hat is a registered trademark and RPM is a trademark of Red Hat, Inc. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the United States and other countries. VERITAS is a trademark of VERITAS Software Corporation. Windows and Windows NT are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. X/Open is a registered trademark of X/Open Company Ltd.

Record of Revision

Revision 001September 1999 
Supports the CXFS 1.1 product in the IRIX 6.5.6f release.

Revision 002October 1999 
Supports the CXFS 1.1 product in the IRIX 6.5.6f release.

Revision 003December 1999 
Supports the CXFS product in the IRIX 6.5.7f release.

Revision 004March 2000 
Supports the CXFS product in the IRIX 6.5.8f release.

Revision 005June 2000 
Supports the CXFS product in the IRIX 6.5.9f release.

Revision 006September 2000 
Supports the CXFS product in the IRIX 6.5.10f release.

Revision 007January 2001 
Supports the CXFS product in the IRIX 6.5.11f release.

Revision 008March 2001 
Supports the CXFS product in the IRIX 6.5.12f release.

Revision 009June 2001 
Supports the CXFS product in the IRIX 6.5.13f release.

Revision 011September 2001 
Supports the CXFS product in the IRIX 6.5.14f release. (Note, there was no 010 version due to an internal numbering mechanism.)

Revision 012December 2001 
Supports the CXFS Version 2 product in IRIX 6.5.15f.

Revision 013March 2002 
Supports the CXFS Version 2 product in IRIX 6.5.16f.

Revision 014June 2002 
Supports the CXFS Version 2 product in IRIX 6.5.17f.

Revision 015September 2002 
Supports the CXFS Version 2 product in IRIX 6.5.18f.

Revision 016December 2002 
Supports the CXFS Version 2 product in IRIX 6.5.19f.

Revision 017March 2003 
Supports the CXFS Version 2 product in IRIX 6.5.20f.

Revision 018September 2003 
Supports the CXFS 3.0 product in IRIX 6.5.22 and CXFS 3.0 for SGI Altix 3000 running SGI ProPack 2.3 for Linux.

Revision 019December 2003 
Supports the CXFS 3.1 product in IRIX 6.5.23 and CXFS 3.1 for SGI Altix 3000 running SGI ProPack 2.4 for Linux.

Revision 020March 2004 
Supports the CXFS 3.2 product in IRIX 6.5.24 and CXFS 3.2 for SGI Altix 3000 running SGI ProPack 3.0 for Linux.