Novell Doc: OES 1 - December 23, 2005 (OES SP2, NetWare 6.5 SP5)

H.6 December 23, 2005 (OES SP2, NetWare 6.5 SP5)

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

H.6.1 Management Tools for NSS

The following change was made to this section.

Location	Change
EVMS	For OES Linux, the plug-in requires that EVMS be the volume manager of devices that contribute space to NSS pools and volumes.

H.6.2 Coexistence and Migration Issues

The following change was made to this section.

Location	Change
Section 6.1, NSS Kernel Module (km_nss) for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 and Later	This section is new.

H.6.3 Managing Compression on NSS Volumes

The following changes were made to this section.

Location	Change
Using ATTRIB (Linux)	This section is new.
Copying Compressed Files between Volumes with the NCOPY Command	This section’s explanation of the NCOPY utility was moved to the NSS Utilities section. For information, see Section A.11, NCOPY (NetWare).
Viewing Compression Statistics with the NDIR Command	This section’s explanation of the NDIR utility was moved to the NSS Utilities section. For information, see Section A.12, NDIR.
Repairing Compressed Volumes with the Compfix Utility	This section’s explanation of the COMPFIX utility was moved to the NSS Utilities section. For information, see Section A.4, COMPFIX. There is a COMPFIX utility for Linux and for NetWare.

H.6.4 Using Distributed File Services to Move and Split Volumes (NetWare)

The following changes were made to this section.

Location	Change
DFS Junctions	The servers of the source volume and destination volume must reside in a management context.
Prerequisites for DFS	You can create DFS junctions only in NSS volumes that reside on your NetWare 6.0 or later server that is part of a DFS management context. All volumes that participate in the junctions, whether they contain junctions or are targets of junctions, must be located on servers in a management context.

Location

Change

DFS Junctions

The servers of the source volume and destination volume must reside in a management context.

Prerequisites for DFS

You can create DFS junctions only in NSS volumes that reside on your NetWare 6.0 or later server that is part of a DFS management context.

All volumes that participate in the junctions, whether they contain junctions or are targets of junctions, must be located on servers in a management context.

H.6.5 Using Non-EVMS Volume Managers for NSS on Linux

This section is new. See Section 22.0, Using NSS on Devices Managed by Non-EVMS Volume Managers.

H.6.6 NSS Utilities

This section is new. See Section A.0, NSS Utilities.