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

Chapter 3 Maintaining your system ................................................... 31
Disk tasks ................................................................................... 31
Changing the default disk format .............................................. 31
Restoring CDS disk labels ........................................................ 32
Disk group tasks .......................................................................... 33
Changing the alignment of a disk group during disk
encapsulation .................................................................. 33
Changing the alignment of a non-CDS disk group ......................... 34
Splitting a CDS disk group ....................................................... 35
Moving objects between CDS disk groups and non-CDS disk
groups ........................................................................... 35
Moving objects between CDS disk groups .................................... 35
Joining disk groups ................................................................. 36
Changing the default CDS setting for disk group creation .............. 36
Creating non-CDS disk groups .................................................. 36
Upgrading an older version non-CDS disk group .......................... 36
Replacing a disk in a CDS disk group .......................................... 37
Setting the maximum number of devices for CDS disk
groups ........................................................................... 37
Changing the DRL map and log size ........................................... 38
Creating a volume with a DRL log .............................................. 38
Setting the DRL map length ..................................................... 39
Displaying information ................................................................. 40
Determining the setting of the CDS attribute on a disk
group ............................................................................. 40
Displaying the maximum number of devices in a CDS disk
group ............................................................................. 41
Displaying map length and map alignment of traditional DRL
logs ............................................................................... 41
Displaying the disk group alignment .......................................... 41
Displaying the log map length and alignment .............................. 42
Displaying offset and length information in units of 512
bytes .............................................................................. 43
Default activation mode of shared disk groups ................................... 43
Additional considerations when importing CDS disk groups ................. 43
Chapter 4 File system considerations ................................................ 45
Considerations about data in the file system ..................................... 45
File system migration ................................................................... 46
Specifying the migration target ...................................................... 46
Examples of target specifications .............................................. 47
Using the fscdsadm command ........................................................ 48
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