Administration
Configure, operate and maintain a BlixtFS deployment.
This section is for the people who run BlixtFS: it covers how configuration works, how to add and tune buckets and protocols, and the day-to-day tasks of keeping a deployment healthy.
Configure
- Configuration How settings are layered from files, environment variables and flags.
- Buckets Bucket specs, attributes, lazy indexing and rescans.
- Protocols NFS, SMB, SFTP and WebDAV settings and users.
- Licensing Install, check and renew a license.
Operate
- Consistency checks How BlixtFS keeps the index and the bucket in agreement, and how to ask for a check.
- Monitoring Metrics, dashboards and logs.
- Performance tuning Settings that matter for throughput and latency.
- Troubleshooting Common problems and how to fix them.
Maintain
- Upgrading Move to a new release safely.
- Backup and recovery What to back up, and how to recover.
- Reference Settings, environment variables, ports and extended attributes.