HP-UX 11i June 2004 Release Notes

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Disk and File Management

VERITAS VxFS 3.5 Available on Software Pack

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VERITAS VxFS 3.5 Available on Software Pack

new for

December 2002

The VERITAS File System 3.5 (HP OnlineJFS/JFS 3.5) product is an extent-based,

intent-logging file system. This product is particularly geared toward UNIX

environments that require high performance and availability, and that deal with large

volumes of data. The VERITAS File System 3.5 (HP OnlineJFS/JFS 3.5) product is the

next generation of the product known as HP OnlineJFS/JFS 3.3.

The base VERITAS File System 3.5 (HP JFS 3.5) is a new version of the base journaled

file system for HP-UX 11i and is available at no charge as part of the December 2002

release of Software Pack. The full VERITAS File System 3.5 (HP OnlineJFS 3.5) enables

advanced file system features and is ordered as a separate product.

For further information, see VERITAS File System 3.5(HP OnlineJFS/JFS 3.5) Release

Notes, available at http://docs.hp.com.

For more information about Software Pack, see “Software Pack (Optional HP-UX 11i v1

Core Enhancements)” on page 58.

Additional Support for Striping and Mirroring

new at 11i

original release

Logical Volume Manager (LVM) now supports striping and mirroring for shared volume

groups. Previously under HP-UX 11.0, a volume group could not be activated in shared

mode if any of its logical volumes were striped or mirrored. This restriction has now been

lifted.

Shared volume groups are provided to support ServiceGuard Oracle Parallel Server

(OPS), so this change only affects customers using OPS. Those customers are now free to

stripe their logical volumes (to improve throughput) or mirror them (for higher

availability).

NOTE Where performance is limited by I/O throughput, striping may help.

See also “MirrorDisk/UX” on page 137.

New Whitepaper on File and File System Sizes

new for

June 2001

There is a new whitepaper, Supported File and File System Sizes for JFS and HFS,

(5971-2383) available at the HP Documentation web site: http://docs.hp.com.