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Chapter 6 Managing the File System
Working With Stripe Groups
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Figure 70 Add Stripe Group
Screen
3 Enter the fields on the Add Stripe Group screen.
• Name: The name of the new stripe group.
• Breadth: The breadth size is the number of file system blocks the
system reads/writes before moving to the next disk in the stripe
group. This value should be optimized for the major application
that uses the disks. The selectable breadth values range from the
size of the file system block size to a maximum of 8192KB. The
default setting is 64KB.
• Available Disks: Disks available to the stripe group. To populate
this list, you must first add disks to the file system by doing the
following:
1) From the SNFS home page, choose Disks from the Config
menu.