Veritas Storage Foundation Cross-Platform Data Sharing 5.0 AdministratorÆs Guide, HP-UX 11i v3, First Edition, May 2008

25Setting up your system
Defaults files
■ Stopped, but startable, volumes are started for the duration of the
conversion.
■ Any volumes or other objects in the disk group that were created with
the
layout=diskalign attribute specified can no longer be disk
aligned.
■ Encapsulated disks may lose the ability to be unencapsulated.
■ Performance may be degraded because data may have migrated to
different regions of a disk, or to different disks.
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
:
vxassist Specifies default values for the following parameters to the
vxcdsconvert command that have an effect on the alignment
of VxVM objects: dgalign_checking, diskalign, and
nodiskalign.
See “Object alignment during volume creation” on page 17.
See the vxassist(1M) manual page.
vxcdsconvert 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.