| General Operating Guidelines and Limitations |
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Affected Component | Description |
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Linux | StorNext does not support the use of loopback IP addresses other than |
| 127.0.0.1. SUSE Enterprise Linux 10 systems sometimes have an entry for |
| 127.0.0.2 in the /etc/hosts file. This causes various FSM operations to fail with |
| the error “Not Local.” |
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| Linux Distributed Gateway (Proxy Server) Restrictions: |
| The dpserver file, used to configure network interfaces and addresses for |
| Distributed Gateways, has a |
| more than one address, an address must be specified in the dpserver file. |
| However, if the interface has only one address, an address cannot be specified |
| or the mount command will fail. |
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| Many versions of Linux run a cron script nightly to build a database used by |
| the slocate command. If StorNext file systems are mounted, they are traversed |
| by this cron job which can have a dramatic impact on the performance of |
| other applications currently using these file systems. Perform the following |
| steps (based on Linux version) to prevent the cron script from traversing |
| StorNext file systems. |
| RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5 |
| Add “cvfs” to the list of file system types to be skipped. This is usually done |
| by modifying the “PRUNEFS” line in the /etc/updatedb.conf file to read: |
| PRUNEFS=”cvfs sysfs selinuxfs usbdevfs devpts NFS nfs nfs4 afs sfs proc smbfs cifs |
| autofs auto iso9660 udf” |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 |
| The optional |
| The default behavior is to disable building the database. If enabled, to |
| prevent cvfs file systems from being scanned, add “cvfs” to the list of file |
| system types to be skipped. This is usually done by modifying the |
| “UPDATEDB_PRUNEFS” line in the /etc/sysconfig/locate file to read: |
| UPDATEDB_PRUNEFS=”cvfs” |
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All UNIX and Linux | The swapon command does not work on StorNext file systems. The Linux/ |
| Unix swapon command is used to specify devices on which paging and |
| swapping take place. If swapon is run on a StorNext file system, the command |
| fails with an invalid argument error. |
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