Quantum 3.5.1 User Manual
Adding an Affinity
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Adding an Affinity
This procedure lets you set stripe group affinities for assigning file
locations to a specific file system stripe group. All subsequent allocations
to a file that have been assigned a valid stripe group affinity will occur on
the specified stripe group.
Affinities may also be assigned to files and directories using the cvaffinity
Affinities may also be assigned to files and directories using the cvaffinity
command. For more information about the cvaffinity command, refer to
the CLI Reference Guide.
1
Unmount the file system by typing the following:
umount <mount_point>
where the <mount_point> is where you have mounted the SNFS.
For example: umount /stornext/snfs1
For example: umount /stornext/snfs1
2
Use cvadmin to stop the file system by typing the following:
/usr/cvfs/bin/cvadmin
snadmin> stop <file_system_name>
snadmin> stop <file_system_name>
(where the <file_system_name> is the file system to which the
affinity will be added.)
snadmin> quit
3
Using a text editor, open the file system configuration file
(<file_system_name>.cfg)
(<file_system_name>.cfg)
, where <file_system_name> is the name of
the file system.