Supported File Systems; Terminology - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 SP3 - STORAGE ADMINISTRATION GUIDE 2-23-2010 Administration Manual

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

1.3 Supported File Systems

EVMS supports the following Linux file systems:
EXT3
ReiserFS
XFS
OCFS2
JFS
EXT2
Swap
NTFS (read only)
FAT (read only)
For more information about file systems supported in SUSE
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 Installation and Administration Guide. (http://www.novell.com/
documentation/sles10).
The Novell
Enterprise Server 2 for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 (or later versions of OES 2 and SLES
10).
The File System Primer (http://wiki.novell.com/index.php/File_System_Primer)
variety of file systems available on Linux and which ones are the best to use for which workloads
and data.

1.4 Terminology

EVMS uses the following terminology in the EVMS user interface:
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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
®
Storage Services (NSS) file system is also supported when used with the Novell Open
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
"Supported File Systems," on
page 12.
HeartBeat 2
®
Linux Enterprise Server 10, see the
describes the
Section 1.3,