Quantum Universal Remote 3.1.3 User Manual

Chapter 6  Managing the File System

Working With Stripe Groups

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Add one or more disks.

• Disks in Stripe Group: Disks associated with the stripe group.
• Available Affinities: Affinities associated with existing stripe 

groups that, if selected, would also apply to this stripe group.

• Affinities in Stripe Group: Affinities associated with the stripe 

group.

• Read-only: Select this option to make the stripe group read only.
• Status: The status of the stripe group, either online or offline.

• Select Up to put the stripe group online.
• Select Down to take the stripe group offline. Data stored in 

the stripe group is unavailable when the status is Down.

• Metadata

, 

, 

and

 

Exclusive: Enable one or more of these 

options (check the boxes) to create a location for metadata and 

journaling on the stripe group.
• To enable placing metadata and journaling but not user data 

on the new stripe group, select the Metadata

, 

, 

and

 

Exclusive checkboxes. Do not associate an affinity with a 

metadata, journal, or an exclusive stripe group.

• To enable placing only metadata on the new stripe group, 

select both the Metadata and Exclusive checkboxes.

• To enable placing only journaling on the new stripe group, 

select both the Journal and Exclusive checkboxes.

• Realtime IO/sec (optional): The number of disk I/O operations 

per second that are available to real-time applications. This is an 

optional setting and can be left blank.

Journaling can be enabled on only one stripe group. 

If the Metadata and/or Journal checkboxes are not 

checked on any of the stripe groups in this file system, 

default settings cause metadata and journaling to be 

placed on the first defined stripe group. 

If the file system was made, the metadata cannot be 

removed.