This guide describes the configuration and administration of logical volumes using the XVM volume manager.
For information about this release, see the following release notes:
SGI InfiniteStorage™ Software Platform (ISSP): README.txt
CXFS™ general release note: README_CXFS_GENERAL.txt
The following documents contain additional information:
CXFS 7 Administrator Guide for SGI InfiniteStorage
CXFS 7 Client-Only Guide for SGI InfiniteStorage
Performance Co-Pilot Programmer's Guide
Performance Co-Pilot for Linux User's and Administrator's Guide
You can obtain SGI documentation as follows:
Log in to the SGI Customer Portal at http://support.sgi.com. Click the following:
Support by Product -> productname -> Documentation
If you do not find what you are looking for, click Search Knowledgebase, enter a document-title keyword, select the category Documentation, and click Search .
The /docs directory on the ISSP DVD or in the online download page contains the following:
The ISSP release note: /docs/README.txt
A complete list of the packages and their location on the media: /docs/RPMS.txt
The packages and their respective licenses: /docs/PACKAGE_LICENSES.txt
The release notes and manuals are provided in the noarch/sgi-isspdocs RPM and will be installed on the system into the following location:
/usr/share/doc/packages/sgi-issp-ISSPVERSION/TITLE
You can view man pages by typing man title at a command line.
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This guide uses the following terminology abbreviations:
Linux refers to the supported distribution of Linux defined in the release note
Windows refers to the supported distribution of Windows defined in the CXFS general release note
The following conventions are used throughout this document:
| Convention | Meaning | |
| command | This fixed-space font denotes literal items such as commands, files, routines, path names, signals, messages, and programming language structures. | |
| variable | Italic typeface denotes variable entries and words or concepts being defined. | |
| user input | This bold, fixed-space font denotes literal items that the user enters in interactive sessions. (Output is shown in nonbold, fixed-space font.) | |
| [ ] | Brackets enclose optional portions of a command or directive line. | |
| GUI element | This bold font denotes the names of graphical user interface (GUI) elements, such as windows, screens, dialog boxes, menus, toolbars, icons, buttons, boxes, and fields. | |
| <TAB> | Represents pressing the specified key in an interactive session | |
| server-admin# | In an example, this prompt indicates that the command is executed on a server-capable administration node | |
| client# | In an example, this prompt indicates that the command is executed on a client-only node | |
| MDS# | In an example, this prompt indicates that the command is executed on an active CXFS metadata server | |
| # | In an example, this prompt indicates that the command is executed on an any node | |
| specificnode# | In an example, this prompt indicates that the command is executed on a node named specificnode or of node type specificnode |
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