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

Enables you to specify a master device path. A master device does not
have a corresponding physical path name in Sybase's database catalog,
but rather has a d_master string. When you start an ASE server, you
must pass in the full path name of master device. The
qio_getdbfiles command first attempts to get the master device
path for the Sybase in the RUN_server_name file in the
$SYBASE/ASE-12_0/install directory for Sybase ASE 12.0 or
$SYBASE/ASE-12_5/install directory for Sybase ASE 12.5
automatically. However, if you do not have a standard
RUN_server_name file, you can use –m flag to pass in the master
device path. You cannot use this option with the -d option.
-m
Enables you to specify the type of database as syb. Use this option
only in environments where the type of database is ambiguous (for
example, when multiple types of database environment variables,
such as $ORACLE_SID, $SYBASE, and $DSQUERY, are present on a
server).
-T
For the qio_convertdbfiles command:
Changes regular files to Quick I/O files using absolute path names.
Use this option when symbolic links need to point to absolute path
names.
-a
Reports on the current fragmentation levels for database files listed
in the mkqio.dat file. Fragmentation levels display as not fragmented,
slightly fragmented, fragmented, highly fragmented. You must be
superuser (root) to use this option.
-f
Displays a help message.-h
Lets you specify the type of database as syb. Use this option only in
environments where the type of database is ambiguous (for example,
when multiple types of database environment variables, such as
$ORACLE_SID, $SYBASE, and $DSQUERY, are present on a server).
-T
Changes Quick I/O files back to regular files. Use this option to reverse
changes made by a previous run of the qio_convertdbfiles script.
-u
For converting Sybase files to Quick I/O files:
■ The qio_getdbfiles and qio_convertdbfiles commands access the Sybase
ASE Server to obtain information. You need to do one of the following to
connect to the Sybase ASE Server:
■ Supply the Sybase sa password when prompted (default behavior).
65Improving Sybase performance with Veritas Quick I/O
Converting Sybase files to Quick I/O files