File Systems Support; Terminology - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 - STORAGE ADMINISTRATION GUIDE FOR EVMS Administration Manual

Storage Managers
Regions
EVMS Features
File System Interface Modules
(FSIM)
Cluster Manager Interface
Modules

1.3 File Systems Support

EVMS supports the following Linux file systems:
For more information about file systems supported in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, see the
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 Installation and Administration Guide. (http://www.novell.com/
documentation/sles10).

1.4 Terminology

EVMS uses the following terminology in the EVMS user interface:
Table 1-2
Term
Sector
Disk
Segment
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ReiserFS (the default file system for SUSE
EXT3
XFS
OCFS2
JFS
EXT2
Swap
NTFS (read only)
FAT (read only)
EVMS Terms
Description
The lowest level that can be addressed on a block device.
A physical disk or a logical device.
An ordered set of physically contiguous sectors on a single device. It is similar
to traditional disk partitions.
Description
Manages the combination of
multiple storage objects
Manages EVMS features
Manages the interface between
the file system managers and the
segment managers
Manages the interface between
the cluster manager and the file
systems and devices
®
Linux Enterprise Server 10)
Plug-Ins
LVM/LVM2 for containers and
region, MD for RAIDs, and DM for
multipath I/O
Drive linking (linear
concatenation), Bad Block
Relocation (BBR), and Snapshot
For information, see Section 1.3,
"File Systems Support," on
page 12.
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