VERITAS Storage Foundation 4.1 Intelligent Storage Provisioning Administrator's Guide

Appendix D, Volume Group Definition Syntax 179
init active|none|zero The type of initialization to perform on a volume.
iodelay
delay The delay in milliseconds between copy operations
performed during recovery of a plex.
iosize
size The size of each region that is resynchronized during
recovery of a plex.
layout
"layout-type" The plex layout that is to be created.
max_ncolumn
number The maximum number of columns in a striped
volume.
max_nraid5column
number The maximum number of columns in a RAID-5
volume.
min_ncolumn
number The minimum number of columns in a striped
volume.
min_nraid5column
number The minimum number of columns in a RAID-5
volume.
mode
mode The permissions to be applied to a volume, for
example 644.
pool
"poolname" The name of the storage pool.
raid5_stripeunit width The stripe unit width for a RAID-5 column.
raid5loglen
length The size of a RAID-5 log whose creation is implied
by the specified capabilities or templates.
regionsize
size The size of each region that is tracked by a bit in the
maps within a version 20 DCO volume. The value of
size must be a power of 2 and be greater than or equal
to 16k (16KB). The default value is 64k (64KB).
rules {
volume-rules } The rules that are to be applied during volume
creation.
spare yes|no|only Whether spare disks can be used for hot-relocation, or
only spare disks are to be used.
stripe_stripeunit
width The stripe unit width.
tasktag
"tag" A tag that can be used to track the volume creation
task.
type data|snapshot|cachevolume
Whether a volume is to be used for user data (such as
a database or file system), as a full-sized instant
snapshot volume, or as a cache volume for
space-optimized instant snapshots.