Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle 5.0 Administrator's Guide, HP-UX 11i v3, Second Edition, December 2008

Lets you include all datafiles, including those that are potentially
sparse.
(Use this option only for debugging purposes, as sparse files are not
candidates for use with Quick I/O.)
-a
Lets you specify the type of database as ora. Specify 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, DSQUERY, and $DB2INSTANCE, are present
on a server).
-T
The following options are available 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 (for example, at a site that uses SAP).
-a
Reports on the current fragmentation levels for database files listed
in the mkqio.dat file. Fragmentation is reported as not fragmented,
slightly fragmented, fragmented, highly fragmented.
-f
Displays a help message.-h
Creates the extra links for all datafiles and log files in the /dev
directory to support SAP's brbackup.
Lets you specify the type of database as ora. Specify 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, DSQUERY, and $DB2INSTANCE are present
on a server).
-T
Changes Quick I/O files back to regular files. Use this option to undo
changes made by a previous run of the qio_convertdbfiles script.
-u
Using Veritas Quick I/O
Converting Oracle files to Quick I/O files
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