ADSM-L

Re: HPUX 10 and VXFS

1997-05-14 16:19:17
Subject: Re: HPUX 10 and VXFS
From: "Brown, Steven M" <smbrown AT AMP DOT COM>
Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 16:19:17 -0400
It looks like (from Ken's attachment (thank you)) that ADSM probably
*DOES* support Online JFS for HP-UX... but can anyone give an absolute
YES or NO?  Is anyone currently running ADSM on an HP-UX box with Online
JFS?... Thanks!

Steve
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Steve Brown
Steve Brown
AMP Incorporated, Factory Systems Unit
MS 26-57
PO Box 3608
Harrisburg PA 17105-3608

Phone:  717.592.5135
Fax:       717.592.3318


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>From:  Ken Hannigan[SMTP:hannigan AT US.IBM DOT COM]
>Sent:  Thursday, May 08, 1997 1:28 PM
>To:    ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>Subject:       Re: HPUX 10 and VXFS (Ken, Please clear the water...)
>
>Steve,
>
>I don't know.  I'll have to check.
>
>For the record, the reason I've jumped into this is that there were several
>people saying that they would not be able to use ADSM at all if it did not
>support VxFS.  I wanted to point out that it's not an all or nothing
>situation
>-- many people (most?) probably use the basic JFS supplied with HP-UX 10 and
>will be able to use ADSM to manage their data.
>
>Finally, here's the text of Markus' original post.  I'm not sure if it
>clarifies things any more, but I thought I'd include it just in case:
>
>> I want to clarify what kind of file system the ADSM Client
>> for HP/UX 10 supports.
>> HP introduced the VXFS file system with UX 10. This is the
>> HP implementation of a "Journal File System".
>> This FS is  ** NOT **  the Veritas FS.
>> ADSM does support THIS VXFS.
>>
>> Unfortunately the VERITAS FS is also listed as "VXFS" in /etc/mnttab.
>> But the VERITAS FS is known as DCFS (Distributed Computing FS) by ADSM.
>> Currently we do not support this kind of FS.
>> (
>>  We have plans to support this FS in the future,
>> but this is not a commitment,
>>  and we have no official date for this.
>> )
>>
>
>Ken Hannigan
>ADSM Server Development
>
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>To: ADSM-L @ VM.MARIST.EDU @ internet
>cc:
>Subject: Re: HPUX 10 and VXFS (Ken, Please clear the water...)
>
>Ken,
>
>Appreciate the input, but am still not clear on this:
>
>Are you referring to HP's optional product called 'Online JFS' which is
>purchased (from HP) separately from base JFS which comes standard with
>HP-UX 10.x?  HP's Online JFS product supports On-line volume resizing as
>well as other features not supported by base JFS.
>
>Or is there a (similar) product for HP-UX which can be purchased
>directly from Veritas that you are referring to?
>
>Bottom line:  Will ADSM support any JFS (VXFS) file system that comes
>with HP-UX or that can be purchased from HP?
>
>Thanks!
>
>- Steve
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>Steve Brown
>AMP Incorporated, Factory Systems Unit
>MS 26-57
>PO Box 3608
>Harrisburg PA 17105-3608
>
>Phone:  717.592.5135
>Fax:       717.592.3318
>
>
>>----------
>>From:  Ken Hannigan[SMTP:hannigan AT US.IBM DOT COM]
>>Sent:  Wednesday, May 07, 1997 3:51 PM
>>To:    ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>>Subject:       Re: HPUX 10 and VXFS
>>
>>Classification:
>>
>>Markus Fehling posted a comment on this a couple weeks ago.   There are two
>>flavors of VxFS, one supplied with HP-UX and one that must be purchased from
>>Veritas.  The version that is distributed with HP-UX is HP's implementation
>>of
>>JFS, and is supported by ADSM.  The version from Veritas is not supported,
>>although there are plans to support it in the future.
>>
>>Ken Hannigan
>>ADSM Server Development
>>
>>
>>
>>        ADSM-L @ VM.MARIST.EDU
>>        05-07-97 12:32 AM
>>Please respond to ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU @ internet
>>
>>
>>To: ADSM-L @ VM.MARIST.EDU @ internet
>>cc:
>>Subject: HPUX 10 and VXFS
>>
>>Hello
>>
>>I am after information on how ADSM customers are backing up VXFS filesystems
>>on
>>HPUX 10 machines.
>>
>>The ADSM documentation states that VXFS filesystems are NOT supported.
>>
>>According to our IBM ADSM rep support is not going to be available until
>>1Q98.
>>
>>We are testing the backup and restore of VXFS filesystems using the latest
>>ADSM
>>HPUX 10 client and have found some problems, but because VXFS is not
>>supported,
>>we can not report it to IBM.
>>
>>1. Has anyone else had problems backing up and restoring VXFS filesystems
>>2. Is anyone using ADSM with VXFS filesystems
>>3. Is anyone concerned that support for this filesystem is a long time in
>>coming.
>>
>>
>>TIA
>>
>>Gavin
>>
>
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