SNFS
Configure StorNext FS Software on IRIX
To configure the StorNext FS software on an IRIX machine, you have to configure the software on the StorNext FS server and StorNext FS clients.
Server Configuration
Step 1 Create a StorNext
#cd/usr/cvfs/config
#cp ../examples/example.cfg ./<file_system>.cfg
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. |
Step 2 Edit the example configuration using the following information.
NOTE | For information about editing the configuration file, refer to the man page by |
| entering man cvfs_config at a system shell prompt. |
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:
[DiskType ST318202FC]
Sectors 35563520
SectorSize 512
The SectorSize should reflect the Sector Format Size of the disk drives, for example: 512, 4096, 8192, 16384.
