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6.5  Manage shares (prepare logical device for service) 

By default, all logical devices are unformatted and not yet visible to either iSCSI or 

NAS services.  The manage share menu is used to prepare a logical device for one or 

more of these services (iSCSI, NFS or SMB).  The manage share will display a menu 
for each logical device defined, along with options to make service assignments.  

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Figure 25 HTML tool, Manage shares menu function  

Block File field 

Description 

Format

 

This button is available for logical devices not yet designated as either iSCSI or NAS.  
Formatting a physical disk will permanently erase all existing data.    

Share

 

If the 

Share type

 field is nfs or smb, this button commits the logical device and enables a 

“file share mount point”. 
If the 

Share type

 field iSCSI this button is commits the logical device and enables an “iSCSI 

mount point”. 

Block 

Indicates the bytes on the logical device are not managed by the ATCA-S201.  If exposed by 
iSCSI, an external host owns the device in its entirety (partitioning, formatting etc.). 

File 

Indicates the logical device is formatted, and the bytes on the device are managed by the 
ATCA-S201 and its Linux file system including partitioning and formatting.   

6.5.1  Commit a logical drive for iSCSI service 

A newly defined logical drive is immediately ready for iSCSI block sharing.  In the 

example above, the logical disk named /dev/vga/lva0 is ready for “iSCSI share”.