File systems

The file systems that are supported for monitoring and reporting by IBM Spectrum Control are listed.

About this task

The Data Server supports monitoring and reporting of the following file systems:
  • AIX® JFS, JFS2
  • Data ONTAP V7 for Network Appliance, including flexible volumes (FlexVol). With Flexvol, you can create multiple flexible volumes on a large pool of disks.
  • EXT2, EXT3, EXT4
  • FAT, FAT32
  • General Parallel File System (GPFS). For a list of the GPFS versions that are supported, view the information in the Agents, Servers and Browsers section of the External link iconIBM Spectrum Control interoperability matrix.
  • HP_HFS
  • NTFS4, NTFS5
  • REISERFS
  • SAN File System (SANFS)
  • Temporary File System (TMPFS)
  • UFS
  • VMFS
  • Veritas Files System (VxFS) r4.5 and 5 (all releases) on the following operating systems:
    • AIX
    • Linux®
    Tip: You can use IBM Spectrum Control with file systems and volumes that are created by using Veritas File System (VxFS) and Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) releases 4 and 5, if the file systems and volumes conform to the features in Version 3 of VxFS and VxVM. IBM Spectrum Control cannot work with volumes and file systems with features that were introduced in VxFS and VxVM releases 4 and 5.
  • WAFL
  • IBM Spectrum Control SAN File System