Open System Services Management and Operations Guide (G06.29+, H06.07+)

Understanding the OSS File System
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OSS Pathnames
define or manage these filesets through the SCF interface and they do not appear in
the fileset configuration database.
The OSS pathnames of Guardian files can have no more than four elements including
the /G, as illustrated in Figure 3-3. These elements, although technically OSS
filenames, are subject to the length restrictions for Guardian filenames.
Figure 3-3. Guardian Files in the OSS File System
subvolume
VST004.VSD
/ (root)
...
/G
volume1
volume ...
directory
directory
file-IDfile-ID
...
... ...
directory
... ...directory
... ...
directory
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subvol1
/G/volume1/subvol1/myfile
file-ID
...
4
1
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4
5
A directory can contain files and other directories.
The local node (/G directory) must contain only volumes.
A volume must contain only nonempty subvolumes.
A subvolume can contain only files.
There is no theoretical limit to the number of directories and files in a directory.
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/E
node
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