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

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Non-Persistent FastResync
A form ofFastResync that cannotpreserveits maps across reboots of the systembecause it
stores its change map in memory.
object
An entity that is defined to and recognized internally by VxVM. The VxVM objects are:
volume, plex, subdisk, disk, and disk group. There are actually two types of disk
objects—one for the physical aspect of the disk and the other for the logical aspect.
parity
A calculated value that can be used to reconstruct data after a failure. While data is being
written to a RAID-5 volume, parity is also calculated by performing an exclusive OR
(XOR) procedure on data. The resulting parity is then written to the volume. If a portion
of a RAID-5 volume fails, the data that was on that portion of the failed volume can be
recreated from the remaining data and the parity.
parity stripe unit
A RAID-5 volume storage region that contains parity information. The data contained in
the parity stripe unit can be used to help reconstruct regions of a RAID-5 volume that are
missing because of I/O or disk failures.
partition
The standard division of a physical disk device, as supported directly by the operating
system and disk drives.
path
When a disk is connected to a host, the path to the disk consists of the HBA (Host Bus
Adapter) on the host, the SCSI or fibre cable connector and the controller on the disk or
disk array. These components constitute a path to a disk. A failure on any of these results
in DMP trying to shift all I/O for that disk onto the remaining (alternate) paths. Also see
active/passive disk arrays, primary path and secondary path.
pathgroup
In case of disks which are not multipathed by vxdmp, VxVM will see each path as a disk.
In such cases, all paths to the disk can be grouped. This way only one of the paths from
the group is made visible to VxVM.
Persistent FastResync
A form ofFastResync thatcan preserveits mapsacrossreboots of thesystem bystoring its
change map in a DCO volume on disk. Also see data change object (DCO).