Table: Veritas File System features in cluster file systems describes the VxFS supported features and commands for SFCFSHA.
Table: Veritas File System features in cluster file systems
Features |
Description |
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Deduplication |
You can perform post-process periodic deduplication in a file system to eliminate duplicate data without any continuous cost. |
Defragmentation |
Free resources are initially aligned and allocated to files in an order that provides optimal performance. See Defragmentation. |
Disk layout versions |
SFCFSHA supports only disk layout Version 7, 8 and 9. Use the fstyp -v special_device command to ascertain the disk layout version of a VxFS file system. Use the vxupgrade command for to upgrade a mounted file system to disk layout Version 7 or later. Use the vxfsconvert command to upgrade an unmounted file system from disk layout Version 4 to disk layout Version 7 or later. |
Fast file system recovery |
VxFS provides fast recovery of a file system from system failure. |
FileSnap |
A FileSnap is a space-optimized copy of a file in the same name space, stored in the same file system. See About FileSnaps. |
Freeze and thaw |
Synchronizing operations, which require freezing and thawing file systems, are done on a cluster-wide basis. |
Locking |
Advisory file and record locking are supported on SFCFSHA. For the F_GETLK command, if there is a process holding a conflicting lock, the l_pid field returns the process ID of the process holding the conflicting lock. The nodeid-to-node name translation can be done by examining the |
Memory mapping |
Shared memory mapping established by the mmap() function is supported on SFCFSHA. |
NFS mounts |
You export the NFS file systems from the Cluster. You can NFS export CFS file systems in a distributed highly available way. |
Nested Mounts |
You can use a directory on a cluster mounted file system as a mount point for a local file system or another cluster file system. |
Quick I/O for databases |
The Quick I/O for Databases feature, using clusterized Oracle Disk Manager (ODM), is supported on SFCFSHA. For DB2 and Sybase databases, see the Veritas Storage Foundation Solution Guide. For Oracle databases, see Veritas Storage Foundation: Storage and Availability Management for Oracle Databases Guide. |
Quotas |
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Snapshots |
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Storage Checkpoints |
Storage Checkpoints are supported on cluster file systems, but are licensed only with other Veritas products. |