ADIC 1.3 manual Limitations, Operating System, Description, Component Affected

Limitations

This table lists the limitations that have been discovered in this release of SNFX.

Operating System/		Description
Component Affected
IRIX	SNFS uses 64-bit inode numbers. 32-bit applications (programs compiled
	without 64-bit) support may experience problems working with files with
	inode numbers greater than 2147483648. 32-bit applications may also
	encounter problems when dealing with files greater than 2TB in size, This
	issue is not unique to StorNext, but may be encountered by some legacy
	applications when working with SNFS on IRIX.
	StorNext only supports SGI 64-bit versions of IRIX on operating systems
	that use the SGI version of the QLogic QLA2200 or QLA2310 FC-HBAs.
	Use the uname -aRcommand to determine the running version of IRIX.
	• If you are using IRIX level 6.5.26, you must install the maintenance
		stream of StorNext or SNFS.
	On many versions of IRIX, the root crontab contains the following entry
	which is used to remove old application crash dumps and temporary mail
	files:
	find / -local -type f '(' -name core -o -name dead.letter ')'
	-atime +7 -mtime +7 -exec rm -f '{}' ';'
	If StorNext file systems are mounted, they will be traversed by this find
	command which can have a dramatic impact on the performance of other
	applications currently using these file systems. To prevent the traversal of
	StorNext file systems, modify the find command so it reads:
	find / -local '(' -type d -fstype cvfs -prune ')' -o -type f
	'(' -name core -o -name dead.letter ')' -atime +7 -mtime +7 -
	exec rm -f '{}' ';'
Linux	On many versions of Linux, the cron system runs a nightly script called
	slocate.cron that is used to build a database used by the slocate
	command. If StorNext file systems are mounted, they will be traversed by
	this cron job which can have a dramatic impact on the performance of other
	applications currently using these file systems. To prevent cron from
	traversing StorNext file systems, two files need to be updated. Perform
	these steps:
	1	Modify the updatedb command in the /etc/cron.daily/slocate.cron file to
		read:
		/usr/bin/updatedb -f
		"cvfs,nfs,smbfs,ncpfs,proc,devpts" -e
		"/tmp,/var/tmp,/usr/tmp,/afs,/net"
		NOTE: "cvfs" has been added to the exclude list.
	2	Add cvfs to the PRUNEFS definition in the /etc/updatedb.conf file.
		For example:
		PRUNEFS="cvfs devpts NFS nfs afs proc smbfs autofs
		auto iso9660"

18 April 2006, ADIC