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ADIC FileServ Version 4.4.1601363 manual

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  • Page 1

    FileServ Version 4.4.1—601363 Rev A Page 1 of 16 www.adic.com Pr oduct: FileSer v ® f or UNIX ® V ersion 4.4.1 Operating Systems: IRIX ® 6.5.6M, 6.5.7M, 6.5.8M, 6.5.9M and 6.5.10M SP ARC™ Solaris™ 7 and 8 Date: October 8, 2001 NO TE: (1) The oper ating system must alwa ys be run in US_English. (2) FileServ suppor ts the maintenance (M) v e[...]

  • Page 2

    Page 2 of 16 FileServ Version 4.4.1—601363 Rev A w ww .adic .com Purpose of This Release This release contains corrections to pr oblems encountered in pre vious versions. Fixed Pr ob lems The follo wing table list s f ix ed problems: Kno wn Pr ob lems The follo wing table lists unresolved problems: Operating System Prob lem Number Description of [...]

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    FileServ Version 4.4.1—601363 Rev A Page 3 of 16 www.adic.com Documentation In addition to the FileServ software, the distrib ution CD contains the FileServ technical documentation as PDF files as well as an Adobe ® Acrobat ® Reader . The Reader allows you to vie w and navigate the electronic book f iles yet preserves the page design and graphi[...]

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    Page 4 of 16 FileServ Version 4.4.1—601363 Rev A w ww .adic.com Update sysparm File with Media Capacity After an initial installation, if you add or change a Sony AIT -2, IBM 3590E1A, Quantum DL T 7000, or Quantum DL T 8000 driv e type, update the system para meters to reflect the new media capacity b y follo wing the steps below: Step 1. Log in [...]

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    FileServ Version 4.4.1—601363 Rev A Page 5 of 16 www.adic.com If you are adding an AIT-2 drive, update the DEF_MED_SPC_AIT parameter definition to be as shown below if you are using 230m tape: If you are adding an 3590E1A drive, update the DEF_MED_SPC_3590 parameter definition to be as shown below: If you are adding a DLT 7000 drive, update the D[...]

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    Page 6 of 16 FileServ Version 4.4.1—601363 Rev A w ww .adic.com Step 4. Rebuild the kernel. Step 5. Reboot the machine. Compatibility with V olSer v ® # autoconfig -f FileServ V olServ V ersion 4. 4.1 V ersion 4.4 V ersion 4.3 V ersion 4.2 V ersion 4.1 V ersion 4.0 V ersion 5.0 V ersion 4.1 NO TE : The release num bering scheme has been changed [...]

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    FileServ Version 4.4.1—601363 Rev A Page 7 of 16 www.adic.com Operating System Requirements Pa t c h e s NO TE: ADIC recommends that y ou install all required Y2K patche s f or your machine. Make sure you install all the patches that your v e ndor recommends for your kernel, operating system, network, hardw are, media, dri v e type, and storage d[...]

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    Page 8 of 16 FileServ Version 4.4.1—601363 Rev A w ww .adic.com fspolicy COMMAND • Running the fspolicy -w command on a lar ge (greater than 500,000 entries) file system can take se veral hours to complete. If the fspolicy command is unable to store or truncate f iles, or if the fspolicy command is killed or terminates abnormally , run fspolicy[...]

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    FileServ Version 4.4.1—601363 Rev A Page 9 of 16 www.adic.com where: Step 4. Sav e the changes and quit the edit session. Step 5. Stop the mediad process. Step 6. Re-start the mediad process. Upgrading fr om FileSer v V er sion 3.4.2 and Later The V ista Database locking type was modif ied to use th e IP locking mechanism. Therefore, to reinitial[...]

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    Page 10 of 16 FileServ Version 4.4.1—601363 Rev A www .adic.com Step 5. Change directory to $FS_HOME/internal/fsdb and mov e each file with a . dbd extension to the same name . dbd . old . There should be one fs1_#.dbd and fs5_#.dbd f ile for each file system managed by FileServ . Step 6. Change directory to DDL and modify the fs3.ddl file b y ch[...]

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    FileServ Version 4.4.1—601363 Rev A Page 11 of 16 www.adic.com to: char drdmhdl[64 ][1]; /* DMIG handle binary data */ Step 11. Get the numbers for both the fileserv5 and f ile serv1 databases to be regenerated b y using ls fs1_*.dbd.old. F or example, if fs1_4.dbd.o ld and fs5_4.dbd.old are returned the number is 4. There should be one pair of t[...]

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    Page 12 of 16 FileServ Version 4.4.1—601363 Rev A www .adic.com Contents of V er sion 4.4 OPERA TING SYSTEMS •I R I X ® 6.5.6M, 6.5.7M, 6.5.8M, 6.5.9M and 6.5.10M • SP ARC™ Solaris™ 7 and 8 FIXED PR OBLEMS The follo wing table list s fix ed problems: Operating System Prob lem Number Description of Pr oblems Fixed in V ersion 4.4 All 539 [...]

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    FileServ Version 4.4.1—601363 Rev A Page 13 of 16 www.adic.com Contents of V ersion 4.3 OPERA TING SYSTEMS •I R I X ® 6.2, 6.5.4M, 6.5.5M, 6.5.6M, and 6.5.10M • SP ARC™ Solaris™ 2.6, 7, and 8 NEW DRIVE SUPPOR T • Additional dri ves supported by this release of FileServ include the follo wing: - IBM 3580 L T O - Solaris only until suppo[...]

  • Page 14

    Page 14 of 16 FileServ Version 4.4.1—601363 Rev A www .adic.com All 499 P olicy will trashcan file if db valid tape != disk All 500 Checkpo int tar command needs t o f ollow links All 503 Mapping has /fs link hardcoded instea d of using $FS_HOME All 504 fs_dump f ails if mount point not at root All 505 fsckp script doesn’t handle /mnt/v ol05 mn[...]

  • Page 15

    FileServ Version 4.4.1—601363 Rev A Page 15 of 16 www.adic.com Previous FileServ Releases For info rmation about pre vious feat ures and fix es to the base softwar e code, refer to prior “Release Notes.” These Notes: • Can be found on the secured site. See “Related Publications” on page 3 of these"Release Notes." • Or , cont[...]

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    Page 16 of 16 FileServ Version 4.4.1—601363 Rev A www .adic.com Copyright  2000, 2001 by ADIC, Adva nced Digital Information Corpora tion. All rights reserved. ADI C, AMASS, CentraVision, DataMgr, EMASS, F ileServ, a nd VolServ are either t rademarks or registered trademarks of ADIC. All other brand or product names are trademarks or registere[...]