Novell Doc: OES 2 SP3: Novell Distributed File Services Administration Guide for Linux

D.4 December 2010 (OES 2 SP3)

The NetWare management information was removed from this guide. For information about using DFS on NetWare servers, see the NW 6.5 SP8: Novell Distributed File Services Administration Guide.

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

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Section 1.2.5, DFS Junctions	Updated the paragraph, “When the junction receives a query, DFS-aware client (Novell Client, Novell CIFS server, and NetStorage) presents the target DFS GUID to the VLDB to get the physical location of the volume, and the query is transparently redirected to the target location.”
Section 1.3, OES 2 Services and Components	Renamed this section.

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Section 2.4, OES 2 SP3	This section is new.

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Section 12.1.3, Preparing the Source Server and Volume	Added Step 3.
Section 12.2, Moving an NSS Volume with DFS	Step 7 is updated with information on how to move clustered volumes.

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Section 13.1.3, Preparing the Source Server and Directory	Added Step 3.
Section 13.2, Splitting a Volume with DFS	Step 6 is updated with information on how to split clustered volumes.

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Section 15.11, The State of a Move Volume or Split Volume Job in a Cluster Environment is Scheduled	This section is new.

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Section C.0, Error Code List	New chapter.

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Section 4.2, Clustering the VLDB Service	Added an example for cluster load script. Updated the example of the cluster unload script.
Section 4.1.2, Guidelines for Using DFS Move and Split in a Cluster Environment	Updated the section with shared volume information.

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Section 5.1, Guidelines for Enabling DFS Using BCC	Updated the guidelines and also added link to the BCC guide.
Section 5.2, BCC Enabling the VLDB Service	Added an example for cluster load script. Updated the example of the cluster unload script with virtual IP address.