Setting Up Filesets

· Fileset names must be limited to 102 characters or less.

· Every cell must include root.dfs. The root fileset can be a LFS fileset or it can be a non-LFS fileset (a non-DCE LFS file system). If root.dfs is a LFS fileset and you plan to use replication, you need to follow the steps described in the OSF DCE DFS Administration Guide and Reference, which describes how to create root.dfs as a DFS LFS fileset and create a read/write mount point for the fileset below the top level of the cell's filespace.

· You should use a common prefix when naming related filesets. This aids in manipulating and grouping related filesets. It also relates the fileset's name to its mount point.

· You can group filesets on the same partition of a File Server machine. This can localize the effects of an outage, but you also need to consider factors such as the number of File Server machines and load balancing before grouping filesets.

· You can replicate filesets for load balancing and to make fileset contents more available. Replication is appropriate for filesets that are read much more often than they are written, such as filesets containing installed executable files. Replication is not supported for non-LFS filesets.

· Consider the disk space a fileset requires before setting up filesets.