6.5 HP StoreAll OS User Guide

The requested operation encountered one or more failures.
Creating filesystem was successful
<Additional information about the feature of the file system which failed>
The creation of the file system continues, but the browser is no longer required to display the
wizard. If the first message displays, the wizard will close automatically. If the second message
displays, you must click Cancel to close the wizard. You can check the status of the file system
by doing one of the following:
◦ View the Filesystems panel in the GUI.
◦ Execute the ibrix_fs command from the node running the active Fusion Manager.
If the file system is mounted, file system creation is complete.
NOTE: If the wizard times out during the creation of the file system, some of the services
defined for the file system (for example, NFS, CIFS, or HTTP shares or Express Query, WORM)
may not be configured. Verify these services exist on the newly created file system. If not, you
must configure them again.
Do not start another instance of the wizard until the first file system is complete.
File systems are created in 64–mode by default
Prior to StoreAll 6.1, file systems were created by default with 32-bit compatibility mode
enabled. Starting in 6.1 the default behavior has changed and compatibility mode is now disabled.
StoreAll creates file systems in 64-bit mode unless you changed the compatibility mode when
creating the file system. However, if the original file system was created with 32-bit compatibility
mode enabled and you later upgrade to 6.1 or later and then extend the StoreAll file system, new
segments will be formatted into the file system as 64-bit mode segments.
The 32-bit compatibility limits the number of inodes on any newly formatted segments to be 32-bit
addressable based on the segbits (number of bits allocated to inodes and segment numbers). If
you have a 32-bit client operating system and 32-bit applications, the 32-bit compatibility mode
should be enabled.
The following output shows the relevant portion of the output from the ibrix_fs -f fsname
-i, indicating how newer segments (65,863,680) appear on a file system originally created with
compatibility mode enabled.
NOTE: The 12th column (“FFREE”) is your total available inode count per segment for the original
segments 66 Million per segment and that of the newer 64 bit segments of 1 billion per
segment. This segment mix and inode count does not negatively affect the operation of your file
system nor any applications.
Using the New Filesystem Wizard
To create a file system by using the New Filesystem Wizard:
1. To start the New Filesystem Wizard, click New on the Filesystems top panel. The wizard
includes several steps and a summary, starting with selecting the storage for the file system.
NOTE: For details about the prompts for each step of the wizard, see the online help available
from the StoreAll Management Console.
2. On the Select Storage dialog box, select the storage that will be used for the file system.
16 Creating and mounting file systems