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Setting Up StorNext FS on AIX 3-7
Configure StorNext FS Software on AIX
To configure the StorNext FS software on an AIX machine, you have to configure the software on
both the StorNext FS server and clients.
Server Configuration
Step 1 Create a StorNext FS-managed file system by copying /usr/cvfs/examples/
example.cfg and renaming it. Enter:
# cd/usr/cvfs/config
# cp ../examples/example.cfg ./<file_system>.cfg
Step 2 Edit the example configuration using the following information.
DISK TYPE section - Defines valid disk types. A disk type describes a category of disks
with a capacity specified in number of sectors. The following parts comprise a disk type:
• The required keyword DiskType preceded by the open bracket symbol ( [ ) and
followed by the closed bracket symbol ( ] ).
• On the next line, the required keyword Sectors and the value of sectors, in terms of
512 bytes per sector, for the disk type.
For example:
The SectorSize should reflect the Sector Format Size of the disk drives, for example:
512, 4096, 8192, 16384.
To obtain the number of sectors where the disks are set, use the cvlabel -1 command.
If you are using disk devices that do not have the same number of sectors, then several
disk types can be specified to handle each common number of sectors.
NOTE
The example.cfg file supplied by ADIC contains commented text (entries that begin
with a #) with descriptions of the various sections and parameters in the file.
NOTE
For information about editing the configuration file, refer to the man page by
entering man cvfs_config at a system shell prompt.
[DiskType ST318202FC]
Sectors 35563520
SectorSize 512