Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1 SP1 Advanced Features Administrator"s Guide (5900-1503, April 2011)

Defaults files
The following system defaults files in the /etc/default directory are used to
specify the alignment of VxVM objects, the initialization or encapsulation of VM
disks, the conversion of LVM disks, and the conversion of disk groups and their
disks to the CDS-compatible format
Specifies default values for the following parameters to the
vxcdsconvert command that have an effect on the alignment of
VxVM objects: dgalign_checking, diskalign, andnodiskalign.
See “Object alignment during volume creation” on page 463.
See the vxassist(1M) manual page.
vxassist
Specifies default values for the following parameters to the
vxcdsconvert command: evac_disk_list, evac_subdisks_ok,
min_split_size, move_subdisks_ok, privlen, and
split_subdisks_ok.
The following is a sample vxcdsconvert defaults file:
evac_subdisks_ok=no
min_split_size=64k
move_subdisks_ok=yes
privlen=2048
split_subdisks_ok=move
An alternate defaults file can be specified by using the -d option with
the vxcdsconvert command.
See the vxcdsconvert(1M) manual page.
vxcdsconvert
Specifies default values for the cds, default_activation_mode
and enable_activation parameters to the vxdg command. The
default_activation_mode and enable_activation parameters
are only used with shared disk groups in a cluster.
The following is a sample vxdg defaults file:
cds=on
See the vxdg(1M) manual page.
vxdg
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