Filter
Top Products
Chapter 6 Managing the File System
Working With Stripe Groups
StorNext User’s Guide 111
3) Add one or more disks.
• Disks in Stripe Group: Disks associated with the new stripe
group.
• Available Affinities: Affinities associated with existing stripe
groups that, if selected, would also apply to this stripe group.
• Affinities in Stripe Group: Affinities associated with the new
stripe group.
• Metadata
, Journal, and Exclusive: Enable one or more of these
options (check the boxes) to create a location for metadata and
journaling on the stripe group.
• To enable placing metadata and journaling but not user data
on the new stripe group, select the Metadata
, Journal, and
Exclusive checkboxes. Do not associate an affinity with a
metadata, journal, or an exclusive stripe group.
• To enable placing only metadata on the new stripe group,
select both the Metadata and Exclusive checkboxes.
• To enable placing only journaling on the new stripe group,
select both the Journal and Exclusive checkboxes
• Journaling can be enabled on only one stripe group.
•If the Metadata and/or Journal boxes are not checked on any
of the stripe groups in this file system, default settings cause
metadata and journaling to be placed on the first defined
stripe group.
• Realtime IO/sec (optional): The number of disk I/O operations
per second that are available to real-time applications. This is an
optional setting and can be left blank.
• Realtime MB/sec (optional): The number of megabytes per
second that are available to real-time applications. This is an
optional setting and can be left blank.
• Non-realtime IO/sec (optional): The number of disk I/O
operations per second that are available to non-realtime
applications. If both Non-realtime IO/sec and Non-realtime MB/
sec Fields are selected, the system uses the lesser of the two
values. This is an optional setting and can be left blank.