Open System Services Management and Operations Guide (G06.27+, H06.04+)
Open System Services Monitor
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ADD FILESET Command
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You can use the ADD FILESET command on filesets associated with an OSS 
name server that is not currently running.
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You should not add all filesets to one OSS name server.
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A newly added fileset has no catalog files. The catalog files (PXINODE, PXLINK, 
and PXLOG) are created the first time the fileset is started.
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The fileset READONLY attribute cannot be set when a fileset is first added. New 
filesets always have a READONLY attribute value of FALSE. This attribute can be 
changed with the SCF ALTER FILESET command.
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The pathname specified by the MNTPOINT option must be an existing directory, 
but the OSS Monitor does not validate this until an attempt is made to start the 
fileset. Once validated, a normalized version of the pathname is used for the mount 
point for sorting purposes, so the apparent pathname for the mount point in an 
INFO FILESET command might not appear to be the same as the specified 
pathname.
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The MAXDIRTYINODETIME option is meaningful only for filesets that use the 
BUFFERED LOG option.
A fileset with an updated (flushed) inode cache is considered “clean” instead of 
“dirty” and does not need recovery after a failure. The more often the inode cache 
is flushed, the less likely a fileset is to be corrupted by a failure and to need 
recovery after the failure.
The larger the value specified for seconds2, the more likely that a fileset recovery 
is needed after a failure, but the faster fileset access becomes because fewer disk 
writes occur to update the cache from memory. The smaller the value for 
seconds2, the less likely that a fileset recovery is needed after a failure, but the 
slower fileset access becomes because more disk writes occur to update the 
cache from memory.
Fileset recovery delays subsequent availability of the fileset, so the tradeoff for 
slightly faster current access is increased probability of delayed access after a 
failure.
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The MAXINODES value specifies an upper bound on the number of inodes that 
can be created in the fileset. It does not guarantee that MAXINODES number of 
inodes will be created in the fileset. Specifying a large MAXINODES value 
increases the fileset recovery time in the case of an outage. HP recommends that 
you specify a MAXINODES value less than or equal to 1000000.
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FTIOMODE must have a setting equal to or higher than the setting of 
NORMALIOMODE. NORMALIOMODE settings are ranked, from highest to lowest:
UNBUFFEREDCP
DP2BUFFEREDCP
OSSBUFFEREDCP
DP2BUFFERED
OSSBUFFERED










