VERITAS Storage Foundation 4.1 Release Notes

VERITAS Storage Foundation Release Notes

Software Limitations

The following sections describe VERITAS Storage Foundation software limitations that exist in

this release.

VERITAS File System Software Limitations

End of Product Support

◆ VxFS 4.1 does not support creating of file systems using Version 1 disk layout and mounting

of file systems using Version 2 or 3 disk layouts. VxFS 4.1 still provides the capability to

upgrade Version 3 disk layouts using the vxfsconvert utility, but this is the last release to

do so. VERITAS recommends that you upgrade all older disk layouts.

The next major release will be the last to support the VxFS Version 4 and Version 5 disk

layouts. VERITAS recommends that you upgrade file systems using these older disk layouts to

Version 6. See “Compatibility With Previous Versions of VxFS” on page 25 for more

information on upgrading.

◆ The QuickLog feature is not available in the VxFS 4.1 release. See the VERITAS File System

Administrator's Guide for information on migrating QuickLog devices to the multi-volume

support function. The document is available on the Doc CD.

◆ This is the last release to support shared (cluster) mounts on VxFS disk layout Version 5 cluster

file systems. Upgrade all current cluster file system disk layouts to Version 6 to enable new

VERITAS File System features and to support upgrades in future releases.

◆ The nau, ausize, aufirst, aupad and ninode options to the mkfs command are not

supported. The mkfs command will accept this option but ignore them without a warning.

These options may be omitted from the mkfs command in future releases.

Compatibility With Previous Versions of VxFS

VxFS 4.1 release does not supports creating or mounting disk layout Version 3 file systems. VxFS

4.1 is the last major release to support disk layout Version 4 and Version 5. VERITAS recommends

upgrading any previously installed VxFS file system to the disk layout Version 6 that is available

with VxFS 4.1.

Caution Do not upgrade /stand and / file systems to disk layout Version 6. The HP

bootloader does not understand this layout.