Veritas Storage Foundation Portable Data Containers: Cross-Platform Data Sharing 5.0.1 Administrators Guide, HP-UX 11i v3, First Edition, November 2009

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, and nodiskalign.

See “Object alignment during volume creation” on page 19.

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

Setting up your system

Defaults files