Installation guide

• alloc=size
A new construct, alloc=storage-spec[,storage-spec,...],
will replace alloc=size. However, the new construct will not allow
you to specify sizes for all allocations. You will need to use the low-
level commands to create subdisks, plexes, and volumes exactly as
required.
• align=size
Two new constructs, diskalign and nodiskalign, will replace
align=size, allowing you to specify whether subdisks should be
created on cylinder boundaries. If you require the ability to specify
alignments for all allocations, you will need to use the low-level
commands to create subdisks, plexes, and volumes exactly as required.
8.19 LSM volprint Command Format
In the next major release of Tru64 UNIX, the default output format of the
volprint command will be changing.
Invoking volprint with no options currently displays all objects in
rootdg, starting with the rootdg disk group record, followed by all of the
disk-media records, subdisk records, plex records, and finally volume records.
In a future release, invoking volprint with no options will display all
records for all disk groups, with all objects arranged in a hierarchical fashion.
Invoking volprint with an object-type option (v, p,ors) currently
displays all objects of that type in the specific disk group. In a future release,
invoking volprint with any of these options will display all objects of that
type, as well as all objects of all subsidiary types, in all disk groups.
By default, invoking volprint currently displays the record type, name,
association, kernel state, length, and comment field. In a future release, it
will display the record type, name, association, kernel state, length, plex
offset, state, and the tuti10 and puti10 fields.
Users who use volprint in scripts should use the -F option to define the
exact output format that they require.
8.20 LVM-to-LSM Migration Tool
The LVM-to-LSM Migration Tool was provided with Version 4.0 of the
operating system to enable migration from the LVM interfaces that were
retired in that release to Tru64 UNIX Logical Storage Manager volumes.
This tool will become obsolete in later releases of Tru64 UNIX because most
customers will have migrated to LSM volumes by that time; therefore, the
LVM-to-LSM Migration Tool will be retired in a future release of the
operating system.
Features and Interfaces Scheduled for Retirement 8–9