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

Note: If the server is up and running, you receive an error message stating
that you need to shut down before you can run the qio_convertdbfiles
command.
Displaying Quick I/O status and file attributes
You can obtain and display information about Quick I/O status and file attributes
using various options of the ls command:
Lists all files on a file system, including Quick I/O files and their links.-al
Shows if Quick I/O was successfully installed and enabled.-1L
Shows how a Quick I/O file name is resolved to that of a raw device.-a1L
To list all files on the current file system, including Quick I/O files and their links
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Use the ls -al command with the file names:
$ ls -al filename .filename
The following example shows how to use the -a option to display the absolute
path name which was created using qiomkfile:
$ ls -al d* .d*
-rw-r--r-- 1 sybase sybase 104890368 Oct 2 13:42 .dbfile
lrwxrwxrwx 1 sybase sybase 19 Oct 2 13:42 dbfile ->
.dbfile::cdev:vxfs:
To determine if a Sybase segment has been converted to Quick I/O
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Use the ls command as follows:
$ ls -lL filename
The following example shows how to determine if Quick I/O is installed and
enabled:
$ ls -lL dbfile
crw-r--r-- 1 sybase dba 45, 1 Oct 2 13:42 dbfile
71Improving Sybase performance with Veritas Quick I/O
Displaying Quick I/O status and file attributes