A Documentation Updates

Completely restructured the manual by introducing parts.

Completely revised the complete guide.

Shortened the majority of procedures.

The cciss driver has been replaced with the hpsa driver. Changed all affected paragraphs accordingly (Fate #316683).

Added Section 1.2.1.2, “The Root File System Setup on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server”.

Added Section 1.2.1.5, “Btrfs Quota Support for Subvolumes” (Fate #315690).

Added Section 1.2.1.6, “Data Deduplication Support” (Fate #316317).

Added ReiserFs to the list of file systems that can be converted to Btrfs (Fate #313096).

Added a note on the new XFS on-disk format to Section 1.2.2.3, “Preallocation to Avoid File System Fragmentation” (Fate #317042).

Added Section 1.2.5, “Ext4”.

Added a note about the support status of ReiserFs to Section 1.2.6, “ReiserFS” (Fate #313799).

Added Section 2.1, “Use Cases”.

Added Section 2.3, “Changing the Size of a Btrfs File System” (Fate #310777).

Added Section 2.4, “Changing the Size of an XFS File System”.

Updated all parts dealing with the YaST Partitioner, due to a new design and workflow.

Added instructions on how to list physical volumes used by logical volumes to Section 4.4, “Resizing an Existing Volume Group” (Fate #316074).

Added Section 4.7.2, “ Dynamic Aggregation of LVM Metadata via lvmetad ” (Fate #314556).

Updated all parts dealing with the YaST Partitioner, due to a new design and workflow.

Added Section 6.2.1, “RAID Names” (Fate #315590).

Removed RAID 6 from this chapter, since setting up RAID 6 arrays is now supported by the YaST Partitioner.

Added Section 8.2, “Creating a Complex RAID 10”.

Removed all discovery domain set stuff, since this is no longer supported by open-isns.

Restructured the whole chapter.

Removed prio_callout from Section 15.10.2, “Configuring Failover Priorities”, since it is no longer supported.

Added Section 15.14, “Best Practice”.

Replace ReiserFS by Ext3 for Shrinking LV (https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=884287).

System Drops Into Emergency Shell After Enabling Multipath (https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=889317/).

There is no iSCSI Target in the Package List (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=905239).

Removed all KDE documentation and references because KDE is no longer shipped.

Removed all references to SuSEconfig, which is no longer supported (Fate#100011).

Move from System V init to systemd (Fate#310421). Updated affected parts of the documentation.

YaST Runlevel Editor has changed to Services Manager (Fate#312568). Updated affected parts of the documentation.

Removed all references to ISDN support, as ISDN support has been removed (Fate#314594).

Removed all references to the YaST DSL module as it is no longer shipped (Fate#316264).

Removed all references to the YaST Modem module as it is no longer shipped (Fate#316264).

Btrfs has become the default file system for the root partition (Fate#315901). Updated affected parts of the documentation.

The dmesg now provides human-readable time stamps in ctime()-like format (Fate#316056). Updated affected parts of the documentation.

syslog and syslog-ng have been replaced by rsyslog (Fate#316175). Updated affected parts of the documentation.

MariaDB is now shipped as the relational database instead of MySQL (Fate#313595). Updated affected parts of the documentation.

SUSE-related products are no longer available from http://download.novell.com but from http://download.suse.com. Adjusted links accordingly.

Novell Customer Center has been replaced with SUSE Customer Center. Updated affected parts of the documentation.

/var/run is mounted as tmpfs (Fate#303793). Updated affected parts of the documentation.

The following architectures are no longer supported: Itanium and x86. Updated affected parts of the documentation.

The traditional method for setting up the network with ifconfig has been replaced by wicked. Updated affected parts of the documentation.

A lot of networking commands are deprecated and have been replaced by newer commands (ip in most cases). Updated affected parts of the documentation.

Numerous small fixes and additions to the documentation, based on technical feedback.