Quantum 3.5.2 manual Probing a Device, Making Global Changes

Chapter 6 Managing the File System

Managing File System Operations

	2 Click OK to close the warning window and proceed, or click Cancel
		to abort the unlabeling process. If you click OK, a status window
		appears.
	3 Click Close when the status displays Success. The Label Disk
		Device screen now shows the device with no label name.
		Note: If you decide later to make an unlabeled device usable by
		the StorNext File System, you must first relabel the device.
		The relabeling process is identical to labeling initially, as
		described in Labeling a Device on page 98.
	Probing a Device
	Use the following procedure to probe a disk device.
	1 After selecting from the Disk Devices box the device you want to
		probe, click Probe. The Probe Disk Device Status window appears.
	2 Click Close when the status displays Success.
		Note: The probe should activate the light on the disk or RAID.
	The global section of the file system configuration file contains general
Making Global Changes
	parameters that control system performance, components related to the
	file system’s resource consumption, and whether features are enabled or
	disabled.
	For most of these parameters, restarting the File System Manager (FSM)
	causes the modified parameters to take effect. However, the File System
	Block Size and Windows Security parameters require that the file
	system be remade before they take effect. Remaking the file system
	results in data loss, so you should carefully plan the initial configuration
	of these two parameters in order to reduce the number of file system
	remakes. If a parameter change requires a file system remake, the system
	notifies the administrator in the system log.
	The global section also contains several parameters that can dramatically
	improve or degrade system performance, so you should exercise caution
	when modifying performance parameters.

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