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

Appendix B. Restrictions and conventions for GPFS

This appendix lists by activity, usage restrictions and conventions which should be followed when using GPFS (for restrictions regarding the use of DMAPI, see the IBM General Parallel File System for AIX: Data Management API Guide) and assumes you are familiar with the GPFS product:

• 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