Setup guide

DescriptionTerm
Synonym for disk arrayEnclosure
Synonym for disk arrayUnit
XR enclosure, XE enclosureXR-Series
XR-Series RAID enclosureXR
XR-Series expansion enclosureXE
Expansion Bunch Of Disks (synonym for XE)EBOD
A workstation-to-storage fibre channel connectionLoop
A storage assembly consists of one enclosure connected to your workstation, and any additional
enclosures daisy-chained to that enclosure.
Storage assembly
A UNIX kernel driver that is used to control the storage of material on a Stone Direct disk array.
The Stone filesystem is optimized for managing large multimedia files.
Stone filesystem
Any POSIX compatible filesystem recognized and mountable by the Linux
®
operating system.
Standard Filesystem
A logical division of the Stone filesystem. When you configure the Stone filesystem, you decide
how many partitions you will use.
Stone filesystem parti-
tion
Notation Conventions
A number of style conventions are used throughout this guide. These conventions and examples of their
use are shown as follows.
ExampleConvention
rpm -qa
Text that you enter in a command line or terminal appears in Courier bold. You
must press the Enter key after each command.
<variable_name>
Variable names appear in Courier, enclosed in angle brackets. No spaces are al-
lowed in variable names.
[<filename>]
Variables that appear enclosed in square brackets are optional.
limit coredumpsize
Feedback from the command line or terminal appears in Courier.
/usr/discreetDirectory names, filenames, URLs, and command line utilities appear in italics.
Commands
The Linux
®
operating system is case sensitive. You must type commands, file names, and pathnames exactly
as they appear in this guide. For more information on the commands used when configuring hardware,
refer to the online operating system documentation. In a terminal, type man followed by the name of the
command. For example, type: man cp to display information on copying files.
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