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Configure StorNext FS Software on Linux
To configure the StorNext FS software on a Linux machine, you have to configure the software on
the StorNext FS server and StorNext FS clients.
Server Configuration
Step 1 Create a StorNext FS-managed file system by copying /usr/cvfs/examples/
example.cfg to /usr/cvfs/config/<file_system_name>.cfg where
file_system_name is a unique, descriptive name. For example:
# cd/usr/cvfs/config
# cp ../examples/example.cfg ./projA.cfg
Step 2 Edit each configuration file 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:
To obtain the number of sectors and the sector size for each storage device, use the
cvlabel -1 command. Multiple entries for DiskTypes can be created to support multiple
hard disks and RAID LUNs of different sizes.
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 ST31917FC]
Sectors 17780736
SectorSize 512