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IBM General Parallel File System for AIX: Administration and Programming Reference

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About this book

  • Who should use this book
  • How this book is organized
  • Typography and terminology

    • What's new

  • What's new for GPFS 1.5
  • Changes for GPFS 1.4
  • Changes for GPFS 1.3
  • Changes for GPFS 1.2
  • Migration

    • Performing GPFS administration tasks

  • Requirements for administering a GPFS file system
  • Managing your GPFS cluster in an HACMP environment
  • Creating your GPFS cluster
  • Displaying GPFS cluster configuration information
  • Adding nodes to a GPFS cluster
  • Deleting nodes from a GPFS cluster
  • Changing the GPFS cluster configuration data
  • Managing your GPFS nodeset configuration
  • Creating your GPFS nodeset configuration
  • Displaying your GPFS nodeset configuration information
  • Changing your GPFS nodeset configuration
  • Displaying the nodes in your GPFS nodeset
  • Adding nodes to your GPFS nodeset
  • Deleting nodes from your GPFS nodeset
  • Displaying and changing the File System Manager node
  • Changing node names and IP addresses
  • Starting and stopping GPFS
  • Managing file systems
  • Mounting a file system
  • Unmounting a file system
  • Deleting a file system
  • Moving a file system to a new nodeset
  • Checking and repairing a file system
  • Listing file system attributes
  • Modifying file system attributes
  • Querying and changing file replication attributes
  • Restriping a GPFS file system
  • Querying file system space
  • Querying and reducing file system fragmentation
  • Managing disks
  • Specifying disk descriptors
  • Adding disks to a file system
  • Deleting disks from a file system
  • Replacing disks in a GPFS file system
  • Displaying GPFS disk states
  • Changing GPFS disk states and parameters
  • Managing GPFS quotas
  • Installing and uninstalling GPFS quotas
  • Establishing and changing quotas
  • Default quotas
  • Checking quotas
  • Listing quotas
  • Activating quota enforcement
  • Deactivating quota enforcement
  • Creating file system quota reports
  • Recovering from over-quota conditions
  • Restoring quota files
  • Managing GPFS access control lists
  • Setting GPFS access control lists
  • Displaying GPFS access control lists
  • Applying an existing access control list
  • Changing GPFS access control lists
  • Deleting GPFS access control lists

    • DFS interoperability

  • Exporting a GPFS file system via DFS
  • Using DFS style ACLs with GPFS
  • DFS ACL entries
  • DFS ACL evaluation
  • Default DFS ACLs
  • Preserving DFS ACLs
  • Local cell identity
  • Removing DFS style ACLs
  • DFS usage of GPFS cache
  • Unmounting a DFS exported file system
  • DFS file size limits
  • GPFS quotas and DCE foreign cell users

    • Communicating file access patterns to GPFS

    GPFS commands

  • mmaddcluster Command
  • mmadddisk Command
  • mmaddnode Command
  • mmchattr Command
  • mmchcluster Command
  • mmchconfig Command
  • mmchdisk Command
  • mmcheckquota Command
  • mmchfs Command
  • mmchmgr Command
  • mmconfig Command
  • mmcrcluster Command
  • mmcrfs Command
  • mmcrlv Command
  • mmcrvsd Command
  • mmdefedquota Command
  • mmdefquotaoff Command
  • mmdefquotaon Command
  • mmdefragfs Command
  • mmdelacl Command
  • mmdelcluster Command
  • mmdeldisk Command
  • mmdelfs Command
  • mmdelnode Command
  • mmdf Command
  • mmeditacl Command
  • mmedquota Command
  • mmfsck Command
  • mmgetacl Command
  • mmlsattr Command
  • mmlscluster Command
  • mmlsconfig Command
  • mmlsdisk Command
  • mmlsfs Command
  • mmlsmgr Command
  • mmlsnode Command
  • mmlsquota Command
  • mmputacl Command
  • mmquotaoff Command
  • mmquotaon Command
  • mmrepquota Command
  • mmrestripefs Command
  • mmrpldisk Command
  • mmshutdown Command
  • mmstartup Command

    • GPFS programming interfaces

  • gpfs_prealloc( ) Subroutine
  • gpfs_stat( ) Subroutine
  • gpfs_fstat( ) Subroutine
  • gpfs_getacl( ) Subroutine
  • gpfs_putacl( ) Subroutine
  • gpfs_fgetattrs( ) Subroutine
  • gpfs_fputattrs( ) Subroutine
  • gpfs_fcntl( ) Subroutine
  • gpfsFcntlHeader_t Structure
  • gpfsAccessRange_t Structure
  • gpfsFreeRange_t Structure
  • gpfsMultipleAccessRange_t Structure
  • gpfsClearFileCache_t Structure
  • gpfsCancelHints_t Structure
  • gpfsDataShipStart_t Structure
  • gpfsDataShipMap_t Structure
  • gpfsDataShipStop_t Structure

    • Appendix A. Considerations for GPFS applications

  • Exceptions to Open Group technical standards
  • Application support

    • Appendix B. Restrictions and conventions for GPFS

  • Configuring and starting GPFS
  • File system creation and configuration
  • File system administration
  • Disk management
  • Node management
  • Communicating file accessing patterns
  • An HACMP environment
  • System configuration
  • Reserved words

    • Notices

  • Trademarks

    • Glossary

    Bibliography

  • GPFS publications
  • RS/6000 SP software publications
  • AIX publications
  • HACMP/ES publications
  • DCE and DFS publications
  • IBM Subsystem Device Driver, IBM 2105 Enterprise Storage Server, and Fibre Channel documentation and Web sites
  • Redbooks
  • Non-IBM publications

    • Index

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