Novell Doc: NW 6.5 SP8: NSS File System Administration Guide

J.4 May 14, 2008

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

J.4.1 Installing and Configuring Novell Storage Services

Location	Change
EVMS Requirements	NSS requires EVMS version 2.5.5-24.54.5 or later. This mandatory update is available in the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Support Pack 1 patch channel as of March 21, 2008. It is also available in the SLES 10 SP2 release. WARNING:The 54.5 or later version is required to prevent and avoid data corruption from occurring when you update EVMS while NSS volumes are mounted.

J.4.2 Managing Devices

Location	Change
Device Size Limit	Changed “disk partitioner” to “the storage vendor’s or third-party disk carving tool”.

J.4.3 NSS Commands

Location	Change
Section A.26, noatime and nodiratime Support for Linux open, mount, nfsmount, and /etc/fstab (Linux)	The noatime option disables the updating of access time for both files and directories so that reading a file does not update their access times (atime). Typically, you need to use only the noatime option so that atime is not updated for the accessed file and its directory when the file is accessed.
Section A.25.2, Using noatime in a Cluster Load Script	This section is new.

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Change

Section A.26, noatime and nodiratime Support for Linux open, mount, nfsmount, and /etc/fstab (Linux)

The noatime option disables the updating of access time for both files and directories so that reading a file does not update their access times (atime).

Typically, you need to use only the noatime option so that atime is not updated for the accessed file and its directory when the file is accessed.

Section A.25.2, Using noatime in a Cluster Load Script

This section is new.

J.4.4 NSS Utilities

Location	Change
Section B.13, NSSCON (Linux)	This section was reorganized for clarity.
Section B.13.3, Using nsscon in a Script	This section is new.