This guide tells you how to plan, create, and maintain XFS® filesystems on a system running the Linux operating system.
For information about this release, see the following SGI InfiniteStorage Software Platform (ISSP) README.txt release note.
The following documents contain additional information:
DMF 5 Administrator's Guide for SGI InfiniteStorage
CXFS 6 Client-Only Guide for SGI InfiniteStorage
XVM Volume Manager Administrator's Guide
Linux Configuration and Operations Guide
The user guide and quick start guide for your hardware
NIS Administrator's Guide
Personal System Administration Guide
Performance Co-Pilot for Linux User's and Administrator's Guide
SGI L1 and L2 Controller Software User's Guide
You can obtain SGI documentation as follows:
See the SGI Technical Publications Library at http://docs.sgi.com. Various formats are available. This library contains the most recent and most comprehensive set of online books, man pages, and other information.
The /docs directory on the ISSP DVD or in the Supportfolio download directory contains information about the release, such as the following:
The ISSP release note: /docs/README.txt
Other release notes: /docs/README_ NAME.txt
A complete list of the packages and their location on the media: /docs/RPMS.txt
The packages and their respective licenses: /docs/PACKAGE_LICENSES.txt
The /docs directory on the SGI XFS & XVM media kit for RHEL CD or in the Supportfolio download directory contains information about the release, such as the following :
The XFS & XVM media kit release note: /docs/xfs_xvm- VERSION-reademe.txt
A complete list of the packages and their location on the media: /docs/xfs_xvm-VERSION-rpms.txt
The packages and their respective licenses: /docs/PACKAGE_LICENSES.txt
The ISSP release notes and manuals are provided in the noarch/sgi-isspdocs RPM and will be installed on the system into the following location:
/usr/share/doc/packages/sgi-issp-VERSION/TITLE
You can view man pages by typing man title at a command line.
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