Veritas File System 5.0 Administrator's Guide (September 2006)

Chapter 1 Introducing Veritas File System
About Veritas File System .............................................................. 11
Logging ................................................................................ 12
Extents ................................................................................ 12
File system disk layouts ........................................................... 12
Veritas File System features ........................................................... 12
Extent-based allocation ........................................................... 14
Extent attributes .................................................................... 16
Fast file system recovery .......................................................... 16
Extended mount options .......................................................... 17
Enhanced data integrity modes ................................................. 17
Enhanced performance mode ................................................... 18
Modes of temporary file systems ............................................... 19
Improved synchronous writes ................................................... 19
Support for large files ............................................................. 19
Access Control Lists ................................................................ 19
Storage Checkpoints ............................................................... 20
Online backup ....................................................................... 20
Quotas ................................................................................. 20
Support for databases ............................................................. 21
Cluster file systems ................................................................ 21
Cross-platform data sharing ..................................................... 22
File Change Log ..................................................................... 22
Multi-volume support ............................................................. 22
Dynamic Storage Tiering ......................................................... 22
Veritas File System performance enhancements ................................. 23
About enhanced I/O performance .............................................. 24
Using Veritas File System .............................................................. 24
Veritas Enterprise Administrator Graphical User Interface ............. 25
Online system administration ................................................... 25
Application program interface .................................................. 27
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