VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 Administrator's Guide (September 2002)

Displaying Volume Information
186 VERITAS Volume Manager Administrator’s Guide
Volume Kernel States
The volume kernel state indicates the accessibility of the volume. The volume kernel state
allows a volume to have an offline (DISABLED), maintenance (DETACHED), or online
(ENABLED) mode of operation.
Note No user intervention is required to set these states; they are maintained internally.
On a system that is operating properly, all volumes are enabled.
The following volume kernel states are defined:
DETACHED Volume Kernel State
Maintenance is being performed on the volume. The volume cannot be read or written,
but plex device operations and ioctl function calls are accepted.
DISABLED Volume Kernel State
The volume is offline and cannot be accessed.
ENABLED Volume Kernel State
The volume is online and can be read from or written to.