Mark-unusable, Mark-good | HP File System Extender (FSE) instruction

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to UNRELIABLE. Note that unless additional option – –force	is speciﬁed,

the command demands FSE administrator’s conﬁrmation before performing this operation. Default answer to the conﬁrmation question is "No".

•– –mark–unusable

Disallow reading from and writing to the FSE medium with barcode Bar- code. From that moment on, the data on the medium can be neither read nor medium can be written to. This is done by setting the status of this medium in the Resource Management Database to UNUSABLE. Note that unless additional option – –forceis speciﬁed, the command demands FSE admin- istrator’s conﬁrmation before performing this operation. Default answer to the conﬁrmation question is "No".

•– –mark–good

Make the FSE medium with barcode Barcode fully operational for normal usage. From this moment on, the data on the medium can be read and the medium can be written to. This is done by removing the unreliable or un- usable status of this medium in the Resource Management Database and

restoring the status that the medium had before it was marked as unreli- able or unusable. Note that unless additional option – –forceis speciﬁed, the command demands FSE administrator’s conﬁrmation before perform- ing this operation. Default answer to the conﬁrmation question is "No".

•– –close–volume

Mark speciﬁed FSE medium volume as full and set its status in the Re- source Management Database accordingly. This operation also saves Fast Recovery Information (FRI) to the end part of the medium volume and to the medium’s system volume, if it is present. If writing FRI to medium fails an appropriate warning is displayed.

Note:

A full FSE medium volume is not used for writing any more. Mark- ing an FSE medium volume as full is useful in situations, when, due to problems with certain medium volume, status of a whole FSE medium is set to unreliable. The medium remains unused although other medium volumes are error–free. In such cases the unreliable medium volume is marked as full and the unreliable status of its medium is re- moved to make other medium volumes available to the FSE system again.

HP StorageWorks File System Extender Software CLI reference

File System Extender (FSE) specifications

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