Chapter 6 Managing the File System

Working With Stripe Groups

Figure 70 Add Stripe Group

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3Enter the fields on the Add Stripe Group screen.

Name: The name of the new stripe group.

Breadth: The breadth size is the number of file system blocks the system reads/writes before moving to the next disk in the stripe group. This value should be optimized for the major application that uses the disks. The selectable breadth values range from the size of the file system block size to a maximum of 8192KB. The default setting is 64KB.

Available Disks: Disks available to the stripe group. To populate this list, you must first add disks to the file system by doing the following:

1)From the SNFS home page, choose Disks from the Config menu.

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