Table Of Contents - Red Hat GLOBAL FILE SYSTEM 5.2 Manual

Introduction .............................................................................................................. vii
1. Audience ...................................................................................................... vii
2. Related Documentation ................................................................................. vii
3. Document Conventions ................................................................................ viii
4. Feedback ...................................................................................................... ix
1. GFS Overview ....................................................................................................... 1
1. New and Changed Features ........................................................................... 2
2. Performance, Scalability, and Economy ........................................................... 2
2.1. Superior Performance and Scalability ................................................... 2
2.2. Economy and Performance .................................................................. 3
3. GFS Software Components ............................................................................ 5
4. Before Setting Up GFS ................................................................................... 6
2. Getting Started ...................................................................................................... 7
1. Prerequisite Tasks ......................................................................................... 7
2. Initial Setup Tasks .......................................................................................... 7
3. Managing GFS ...................................................................................................... 9
1. Creating a File System ................................................................................... 9
2. Mounting a File System .................................................................................13
3. Unmounting a File System .............................................................................16
4. Displaying GFS Tunable Parameters ..............................................................16
5. GFS Quota Management ...............................................................................18
5.1. Setting Quotas ...................................................................................18
5.2. Displaying Quota Limits and Usage .....................................................19
5.3. Synchronizing Quotas ........................................................................21
5.4. Disabling/Enabling Quota Enforcement ................................................22
5.5. Disabling/Enabling Quota Accounting ..................................................23
6. Growing a File System ..................................................................................25
7. Adding Journals to a File System ...................................................................27
8. Direct I/O ......................................................................................................29
8.1.
O_DIRECT
8.2. GFS File Attribute ...............................................................................30
8.3. GFS Directory Attribute .......................................................................31
9. Data Journaling .............................................................................................32
10. Configuring
atime
10.1. Mount with
10.2. Tune GFS
11. Suspending Activity on a File System ...........................................................35
12. Displaying Extended GFS Information and Statistics ......................................36
12.1. Displaying GFS Space Usage ...........................................................36
12.2. Displaying GFS Counters ..................................................................37
12.3. Displaying Extended Status ..............................................................40
13. Repairing a File System ...............................................................................42
14. Context-Dependent Path Names ..................................................................44
Index .......................................................................................................................47
...........................................................................................30
Updates ..........................................................................33
..........................................................................34
noatime
Quantum ...............................................................35
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