Novell Doc: OES 2 SP3: NSS File System Administration Guide for Linux - November 2009 (OES 2 SP2) - July 17 2014

H.6 November 2009 (OES 2 SP2)

Updates were made to the following sections. The changes are explained below.

H.6.1 Upgrading the NSS Media Format

Location	Change
Section 4.3, Upgrading the Media Format Automatically for New NSS Volumes	The commands are updated.

H.6.2 Planning NSS Storage Solutions

Location	Change
Section 5.4.2, Number of Characters Allowed	Updated the table for the maximum number of characters allowed from NSSMU and iManager for RAID 1, RAID 0+1, and RAID 5+1.

H.6.3 Using NSS in a Virtualization Environment

Location	Change
Section 6.1.3, Guest Server Issues	The XenBlkBarriers commands are modified.

H.6.4 Cluster-Enabling Shared NSS Devices and Pools with Novell Cluster Services

Location	Change
Section 8.2, Guidelines for Cluster-Enabling NSS	A new "Cluster-Enabling an Existing NSS Pool and Its Volumes" paragraph is added.

H.6.5 Management Tools for NSS

Location

Change

Prerequisites for Using the Storage-Related Plug-Ins

A new prerequisites “Web Browser Character Encoding Setting” is added.

Section 9.2, NSS Management Utility (NSSMU) Quick Reference

The table is updated.

H.6.6 Managing Devices

Location	Change
Section 10.6, Initializing a Disk	Added steps to initialize a disk from NSSMU.
Section 10.7.3, Configuring the Device’s Share State	Updated steps to configure the device’s share state from NSSMU.

H.6.7 Managing NSS Software RAID Devices

Location	Change
Section 13.2.4, Choosing a Software RAID Solution	Updated the table for RAID 0+1 and RAID 5+1.
Section 13.9, Creating a Software RAID 0+1 with NSSMU	Modified the section for RAID 0+1 and for the availability on Linux.
Section 13.10, Creating a Software RAID 5+1 with NSSMU	Modified the section for RAID 5+1 and for the availability on Linux.
Section 13.14, Replacing a Failed Segment in a Software RAID	Updated the table for RAID 0+1 and RAID 5+1.

H.6.8 Managing NSS Pools

Location	Change
Section 15.13, Updating eDirectory Pool Objects	Updated the steps for updating eDirectory from NSSMU and added a new note to the section.
Section 15.14, Updating eDirectory for Shared Pool	Added a new section.

H.6.9 Managing NSS Volumes

Location	Change
Section 18.1.1, Volume Attributes	The section is Lookup Namespace modified.
Section 18.10, Configuring the Name Space for an NSS Volume	The section is modified for Lookup Namespace.

H.6.10 Managing Hard Links

Location	Change
Section 24.4, Creating a Hard Link Using Ln on an NSS Volume	The command is modified.

H.6.11 Troubleshooting the NSS File System

Location	Change
Section 29.4.3, eDirectory Error 601 When Creating NSS Volume	This is a new entry.
Section 29.17, NFS Volume Mount Failure Blocks the Mounting of Other File Systems	This is a new entry.

H.6.12 NSS Commands

Location	Change
Section A.15, LAF Audit Log Messages Commands	The commands are updated.
Section A.26, Pool Management Commands	The Pool Status commands are updated.
Section A.31, Read Ahead Blocks and Allocate Ahead Blocks Commands	The Allocate Ahead Blocks commands and range are updated.

H.6.13 NSS Utilities

Location	Change
Section B.1, attrib	-S and -r options are added.
Section B.2, compfix	COMPFIX for Linux is updated.
Section B.11, rights	RIGHTS for Linux is updated.
Section B.13, quota	This is a new entry.
Section B.14, nssraid	This is a new entry.
Section B.15, ncsinit	This is a new entry.