Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1 SP1 Cluster File System Release Notes (5900-1509, April 2011)

Number of nodes supported

SFCFS is capable of supporting cluster configurations with up to 64 nodes.

Symantec has tested and qualified configurations of up to 32 nodes on IA-64

(Itanium) at the time of the release.

For more updates on this support, see the Late-Breaking News TechNote on the

Symantec Technical Support website:

http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH144835

Fixed issues

This section covers the incidents that are fixed in this release.

See the corresponding Release Notes for a complete list of fixed incidents related

to that product.

See “Documentation” on page 50.

Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster File System fixed issues

This section describes the incidents that are fixed in Veritas Storage Foundation

Cluster File System.

Table 1-2

Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster File System fixed issues

DescriptionIncident

Fixed an smap update issue due to which ‘df’ and ‘rm’ commands can hang.1856719

Optimize getattr call to speedup the case when binaries are mmaped from

multiple nodes.

1544221

Veritas File System fixed issues

This section describes the incidents that are fixed in Veritas File System in this

release.

Table 1-3

Veritas File System fixed issues

DescriptionIncident

Fixed the cause of a hang when mounting a frozen file

system.

1537570

Fixed the cause of an assertion panic.1537588

Storage Foundation Cluster File System Release Notes

Fixed issues