How This Guide Is Organized

The VERITAS File System introduces the major features and characteristics of VxFS.

VxFS Performance: Creating, Mounting, and Tuning File Systems describes VxFS tools that optimize system performance. This section includes information on mount options.

Extent Attributes describes the policies associated with allocation of disk space.

Application Interface describes ways to optimize an application for use with VxFS. This chapter includes details on cache advisories, extent sizes, and reservation of file space.

Storage Checkpoints describes the VxFS replication technology that allows the quick and easy creation of resource-efficient file system backups.

Online Backup Using File System Snapshots describes the snapshot backup feature of VxFS.

Quotas describes VxFS methods to limit user access to file and data resources.

File Change Log describes the File Change Log and Reverse Name Lookup feature of VxFS.

Multi-Volume File Systems describes the multi-volume support feature that allows several volumes to be represented by a single logical object in a volume set.

Quality of Storage Service describes the VERITAS Quality of Storage Service option that lets VxFS map more than one volume into a single file system.

Quick I/O for Databases describes the VERITAS Quick I/O™ feature that treats preallocated files as raw character devices to increase performance.

VERITAS File System Quick Reference provides information on common file system tasks and examples of typical VxFS operations.

Kernel Messages lists VxFS kernel error messages in numerical order and provides explanations and suggestions for dealing with these problems.

Disk Layout describes and illustrates the major components of VxFS disk layouts.

The Glossary contains a list of terms and definitions relevant to VxFS.