Veritas File System 5.0.1 Release Notes

Table 1-2 Features Enabled by HP Serviceguard Storage Management Licenses (continued)
T2777DBT2775DBT2774DBT2773DBT2771DBFeature
YesYesYesYesYesFile Change Log
— Logs file system activity for fast
incremental backup and auditing
YesYesYesYesYes
Online FileSystem Operations (fsadm)
— File system resize
— File system defragmentation
— Single file or directory defragmentation
— File System intent log resize
YesYesYesYesYesDMAPI - A VxFS interface that enables
Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM).
Also known as XDSM.
YesYesYesYesYesBig File Systems - A single file system of
size greater than 2 TB and lesser than or
equal to 32 TB.
YesYesYesYesYesFile systems up to 256 TB
YesYesYesYesYesODM, Quick I/O (QIO); Concurrent I/O
(CIO)
YesYesNoNoNoCluster File System
1 HP-UX client support.
2 Defaults to standalone support of Oracle database features.
End of Support
The following features are no longer supported:
• VxFS 5.0.1 does not support creating or mounting file systems using Version 1, 2, or 3 disk
layout. HP recommends that you upgrade all older disk layouts to Version 7.
• Future major releases of VxFS may discontinue support for DLV 4 and DLV 5.
• The nau, ausize, aufirst, aupad and ninode options to the mkfs command are not
supported. The mkfs command accepts these options but ignores them without a warning.
These options can be omitted from the mkfs command in future releases.
• The default version for the File Change Log (FCL) in VxFS 5.0.1 is version 4. VxFS 5.0.1 is
the last major release to support FCL version 3. Upgrade FCL to version 4 to make use of
the advanced logging facilities provided by Version 4 and for facilitating future upgrades.
• The fscdstask command, used for performing online Cross-Platform Data Sharing (CDS)
operations, has been replaced by the fscdsadm command. Support for the fscdstask
command might be dropped in future VxFS releases.
• The functionality provided by the Veritas multi-volume support feature replaces most of
the functionality provided by the Quicklog feature.
• The snapshot feature will not be available in future Veritas releases.
Features no Longer Supported
• Version 4 and Version 5 file system disk layouts for shared (cluster) mounts
VxFS 5.0.1 supports shared (cluster) mount only for file systems with disk layout 6 or 7. If
you have a shared (cluster) mounted file system with disk layout versions 4 or 5, you must
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