J.7 December 14, 2007

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

J.7.1 Installing and Configuring Novell Storage Services

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Upgrading from OES 1 Linux to OES 2 Linux

This section is new. It addresses read performance problems you might experience for NSS volumes after upgrading from OES 1 Linux to OES 2 Linux.

J.7.2 Managing Backup and Restore for Data and Trustee Information

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Using Extended Attributes (xAttr) Commands (Linux)

Procedures were added for enabling and disabling support for the Linux xattr API.

J.7.3 Management Tools for NSS

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Understanding Storage-Related Plug-Ins

Added the paths and filenames of all storage-related plug-in files.

J.7.4 NSS Commands

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Read Ahead Blocks and Allocate Ahead Blocks Commands

A note was added to address read performance problems you might experience for NSS volumes after upgrading from OES 1 Linux to OES 2 Linux.

J.7.5 Planning Your Multipath I/O Solution for NSS on NetWare

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Planning Your Multipath I/O Solution for NSS on NetWare

You should set a non-zero priority on all of the paths for the device. If you set a non-zero priority on any of the paths, zero is considered the highest priority until all paths are set to a non-zero value.