Veritas File System 5.1 SP1 Administrator"s Guide (5900-1499, April 2011)

Technical Support ............................................................................................... 4
Chapter 1 Introducing Veritas File System ....................................... 15
About Veritas File System .............................................................. 15
Logging ................................................................................ 16
Extents ................................................................................ 16
File system disk layouts ........................................................... 16
Veritas File System features ........................................................... 17
Extent-based allocation ........................................................... 19
Extent attributes .................................................................... 20
Fast file system recovery ......................................................... 21
Extended mount options .......................................................... 22
Enhanced data integrity modes ................................................. 22
Enhanced performance mode ................................................... 23
Temporary file system mode .................................................... 24
Improved synchronous writes .................................................. 24
Support for large files ............................................................. 24
Access Control Lists ................................................................ 24
Storage Checkpoints ............................................................... 24
FileSnaps .............................................................................. 25
Quotas ................................................................................. 25
Support for databases ............................................................. 25
Cluster file systems ................................................................ 26
Cross-platform data sharing ..................................................... 26
File Change Log ..................................................................... 26
Multi-volume support ............................................................. 27
SmartTier ............................................................................. 27
Thin Reclamation of a file system ............................................. 27
Partitioned directories ............................................................ 28
Veritas File System performance enhancements ................................ 28
About enhanced I/O performance .............................................. 29
Using Veritas File System .............................................................. 30
Veritas Enterprise Administrator Graphical User Interface ............ 30
Veritas Operations Manager ..................................................... 31
Online system administration .................................................. 31
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