J.5 February 22, 2008

Updates were made to the following sections. The changes are explained below.

J.5.1 Installing and Configuring Novell Storage Services

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EVMS Requirements

NOTE:The following data corruption problem that arose after the OES 2 Linux release can be easily resolved by upgrading to OES 2 SP1 Linux.

WARNING:Data corruption can occur if NSS pools and volumes are mounted when you install EVMS updates. For details and workarounds, see the following resources in the OES 2 Readme:

  • Possible Data Corruption Can Occur If NSS Pools Are Mounted During an EVMS Update

  • EVMS Updates Are Mandatory to Prevent Data Corruption for NSS Pools and Volumes

J.5.2 Management Tools for NSS

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EVMS (Linux)

NOTE:The following data corruption problem that arose after the OES 2 Linux release can be easily resolved by upgrading to OES 2 SP1 Linux.

WARNING:Data corruption can occur if NSS pools and volumes are mounted when you install EVMS updates. For details and workarounds, see the following resources in the OES 2 Readme:

  • Possible Data Corruption Can Occur If NSS Pools Are Mounted During an EVMS Update

  • EVMS Updates Are Mandatory to Prevent Data Corruption for NSS Pools and Volumes

Understanding Storage-Related Plug-Ins

This section was edited for clarity.

J.5.3 NSS Utilities

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NSSCON (Linux)

NSSCON can be used for all NSS commands listed in Section A.0, NSS Commands, except those commands that are marked explicitly for NetWare.

J.5.4 Troubleshooting the NSS File System

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eDirectory Error 672 When Creating an NSS Pool on Linux

Run nssAdminInstall at a Linux terminal console as the root user.