HP-UX 11i Version 2 May 2005 Release Notes

Disk and File Management
VERITAS File System (HP JFS / HP OnlineJFS)
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Summary of Change
Starting with the May 2005 release, HP OnlineJFS provides permanent licenses for the
product.
Support for file systems of up to 32 TB has now been certified. Files can be a maximum
of 2 TB. Files systems larger than 2 TB must be created on a VERITAS Volume Manager
volume.
Machines Affected or No Longer Supported
Version 3.5 is the last release to support the VxFS Version 2 and Version 3 disk layouts.
You can still mount these older disk layout versions, but you cannot create them using
the VERITAS mkfs command.
VxFS 3.5 on HP-UX 11i v2 supports the following disk layout versions:
Impact
Customers of HP OnlineJFS 3.5 and later will now get a license key that does not expire.
With the latest version of OnlineJFS (May 2005) you should use the vxlicinst and
vxlicrep commands for obtaining information on the license key. You should not use the
vxlicense command as it does not return the newly installed license details.
Compatibility
There are no known compatibility issues.
Performance
There are no known performance issues.
Documentation
This release includes manpages as part of the VERITAS File System 3.5 (HP Online
JFS/JFS 3.5) product.
For further information, see the VERITAS File System 3.5 (HP Online JFS/JFS 3.5)
Administrator's Guide, available at http://docs.hp.com.
Obsolescence
• VxFS 3.5 on HP-UX 11i v2 is a new release. It doesn’t obsolete VxFS 3.5 on HP-UX
11i v1.
•The vx_fancy_readahead tunable is obsolete and has been replaced by the file
system tunable
read_ahead . Additionally, the following tunables are obsolete:
Table 6-1 Supported Disk Layout Versions
Disk Layout Version Can Create File System Can Mount File System
2 and 3 No (obsoleted) Yes
4 and 5 Yes Yes