VERITAS Volume Manager 3.1 Reference Guide

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Volume Manager Commands

vxassist - creating and changing volumes

# for regular striping, by default create between 2 and

8 stripe

# columns

max_nstripe=8

min_nstripe=2

# for RAID-5, by default create between 3 and 8 stripe

columns

max_nraid5stripe=8

min_nraid5stripe=3

# create 1 log copy for both mirroring and RAID-5

volumes, by

default

nregionlog=1

nraid5log=1

# by default, limit mirroring log lengths to 32Kbytes

max_regionloglen=32k

# use 64K as the default stripe unit size for regular

volumes

stripe_stwid=64k

# use 16K as the default stripe unit size for RAID-5

volumes

raid5_stwid=16k