Quantum Universal Remote 3.1.3 User Manual

Chapter 6  Managing the File System

Working With Affinities

StorNext User’s Guide

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Working With Affinities

An affinity is a label assigned to one or more stripe groups. An affinity 

enables you to direct data to its associated stripe groups. A file system 

can have one or more affinities associated with it. These associations, 

defined in stripe groups, are made with the affinity key to a directory or 

file. 
For example, if you create a directory association with Affinity aff1, all 

data written to that directory is written to StripeGroup StripeGroup2, and 

therefore only to disk2. 
If you make an association with Affinity aff2 and a separate directory in 

the file system, all data is directed to StripeGroup StripeGroup3, which 

contains three disks: disk3, disk4, and disk5. All data is written to these 

disks when directed to the associated directory with Affinity aff2.
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Use the following procedure to add an affinity to a configured file 

system. 

From the StorNext home page, select Add Affinity from the Config 

menu. The Add Affinity Introduction screen appears, showing a list 

of existing configured file systems to which you can add an affinity.