
• Lazy-mountandunmount–thisgreatlyreducesthenumberofsimultaneousmountson
clientsystems,therebyallowingefcientdeploymentinlargeNFSinfrastructures.
• MapscanbesharedwithSunSolaris,HP/UX,IBMAIX,andotherUNIXsystems.
• AuthenticatedbindswithLDAPserversusingKerberos,Digest-MD5,etc.
Samba
RedHatEnterpriseLinuxincludesSambatoprovideinteroperabilitywith
MicrosoftWindowsleandprint(CIFS)systems.Newfeaturesallowgreatlyimproved
integrationwithMicrosoftActiveDirectorywith,forexample,moreconsistentuserand
groupmapping,andbettersupportfornestedgroups.Extensivedevelopmentworkand
numerousenhancementshaveimprovedthequalityandstabilityoftheentiresubsystem.
FS-Cache
FS-Cacheisanewlesystemthatpermitsdatalocatedonaremotesystem,
suchasanNFSserver,tobecachedonalocalstoragedevice.Formemory-constrainedor
data-intensivesystems,thiseliminatestherequirementtorepeatedlyreadthesamedata
fromtheremotesystem.Theneteffectisincreasedclientperformanceandreduced
serverandnetworkload.
NFS
RedHatEnterpriseLinux5providesthelatestNFSv4implementation,
offeringsignicantenhancementsinperformance,stabilityand,withSecureNFS,security
andserver-sidedelegation.
AllversionsofNFScannowusetheFS-Cachefacility.Filesystemsmountedwiththenew
‘fsc’mountoption,willcachedatapagesthatarereadfromtheserver.Notethatdata
pageswillstillexistafterthearebootorthelesystemisunmounted/mounted,assuming
thedataontheserverhasnotchanged.
Global File System, Logical Volume Manager,
and Distributed Lock Manager
Inordertosimplifyseamlesssystemgrowthandvirtualizationadoption,the
baseRedHatEnterpriseLinux5productincludesstandalone(singlesystem/guest)
versionsofthreedistributedsystemtechnologies:
• LogicalVolumeManager(LVM)–forcreatingandmanagingpoolsofvirtualstorage
devices
• GlobalFileSystem(GFS)–ahighperformance,scalable,POSIX-compliantlesystem.
GFSprovidessupportforlesystemswithupto8EBtheoreticalcapacity(with25TB
certiedcapacityatRedHatEnterpriseLinux5launch).
• DistributedLockManager(DLM)–asophisticatedapplicationsynchronizationinterface.
What’s New in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
WindoWS interoperability
performanCe
uniX interoperability
diStributed SyStemS
SCalability & performanCe
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