Software Product Bulletins and Alerts
StorNext Product Alerts
Mar 2013
StorNext Product Alert #41 Do not change or remove source replication policies in Storage Manager environments while files are being stored.
May 2011
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Oct 2010
StorNext Product Alert #34 A store policy time out may cause loss of some data stored on Storage Disk (sdisk) or Deduplicated Disk (ddisk, applicable to StorNext 3.x only).
Apr 2010
StorNext Product Alert #33 A store policy is continuously started, causing the Linter database to use 75 - 80% of the available CPU cycles.
Dec 2009
StorNext Product Alert #32 When the number of relation points for a file system exceeds the number of configured rebuild threads, files may not be placed on the store, truncation and relocation candidate list.
Jun 2009
StorNext Product Alert #31 The new VTOC disk label format in StorNext 3.1.3 for Solaris 10 has implications for IRIX systems and backwards compatibility.
Jun 2009
StorNext Product Alert #30 Changing target devices by adding or removing devices during active disk-to-tape writes stores without changing the OS mapping of the Stornext metadata controller can result in data corruption. Changes to the physical drive layout in the library must be reflected in the library configuration presented by the StorNext GUI.
Apr 2009
StorNext Product Alert #29 Database corruption may occur if ha_redirect.conf is compromised by incomplete failover, manual edits, and/or control script edits. This Alert applies to Storage Manager installations that are HA enabled.
May 2009
Jun 2009
StorNext Product Alert #27 Files stores can back up on a policy class if an fsrminfo command is done on media associated with the policy class.
Mar 2009
StorNext Product Alert #26 A significant performance regression may be encountered when retrieving offline files from tape secondary storage. Retrieving files from storage disk is not impacted.
Mar 2009
Feb 2009
Feb 2009
StorNext Product Alert #23 StorNext installations that utilize Deduplicated Storage Disk DDisk may encounter data corruption, and as a result blockpool data stored on the Sdisk may be inaccessible
Feb 2009
Feb 2009
StorNext Product Alert #21 If StorNext receives a retryable tape drive error while fsmedcopy or fsfilecopy is executing, there is a chance during the retry process that tapes other than those being used for the fsmedcopy or fsfilecopy processes could be overwritten.
Dec 2008
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Oct 2006
Jun 2006
StorNext Product Alert #11 Possible data corruption when accessing file systems using NFS and appending files that are under Storage Manager control
Jun 2006
StorNext Product Alert #10 Possible data loss due to a hardware error or user intervention when a new tape is formatted and an active tape is in the drive
Jun 2006
StorNext Product Alert #9 Expanding Stripe Group Bandwidth Using the Windows Configuration Administrator GUI will product incorrect file system configuration files causing data corruption
May 2006
StorNext Product Alert #8 Possible data corruption when running Linux because the Linux sg_map utility rewinds mounted tape drives
May 2006
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StorNext Product Bulletins
Apr 2013
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Oct 2012
StorNext Product Bulletin #84 When installing an Operating System the installation program may prompt the User to initialize the StorNext disks. If the wrong selection is made the installation program could initialize the labels of the disk and the clients will not be able to mount the StorNext file system.
Nov 2012
Nov 2012
Jun 2012
StorNext Product Bulletin #81 The Windows Operating System can re-allocate a port number that was granted to the StorNext fsmpm port to another application.
May 2012
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Jun 2012
StorNext Product Bulletin #76 StorNext customers using the Data Movement Integrity Check Option can receive false checksum errors for correctly recoverable files.
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StorNext Product Bulletin #52 A StorNext client may cause a blue screen error when running on Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 (including R2), Windows 7, or subsequent Windows releases
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StorNext Product Bulletin #18 When using lookup commands under managed directories, directory handles are shown rather than just the directory name
Sep 2006
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Jun 2006
StorNext Product Bulletin #14 StorNext is now certified with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9, Service Pack 3 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 4.0 Updates 1 and 2
May 2006
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Jun 2005
StorNext Product Bulletin #9 StorNext versions 2.4.x and 2.5 have experienced miscounts of approved licenses when implemented with Xsan clients
May 2005
StorNext Product Bulletin #8 Upgrade to StorNext 2.5.1 build 46 or higher, to avoid risk of file system corruption when performing Bandwidth Expansion
Mar 2005
Mar 2005
StorNext Product Bulletin #7 StorNext Management Suite prior to version 2.4.2 build 67, takes Scalar 10K libraries offline during certain operations
Jan 2005
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StorNext FX Product Alerts
Jun 2006
StorNext FX Product Alert #9 Expanding Stripe Group Bandwidth Using the Windows Configuration Administrator GUI will product incorrect file system configuration files causing data corruption
May 2006
Feb 2006
StorNext FX Product Bulletins
Aug 2011
StorNext FX Product Bulletin #52 A StorNext client may cause a blue screen error when running on Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 (including R2), Windows 7, or subsequent Windows releases
May 2010
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AMASS for UNIX Alerts
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AMASS for UNIX Bulletins
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