VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 User's Guide - VERITAS Enterprise Administrator (June 2002)

Chapter 5, File System Tasks 133

Using the QuickLog Feature

◆ Creating a QuickLog Volume

◆ Enabling a QuickLog Device for a File System

◆ Disabling a QuickLog Device for a File System

◆ Removing a QuickLog Volume

Creating a QuickLog Volume

The Make Log procedure designatesa volumeas aQuickLog

volume. After settingup a

QuickLog volume, you can enable a QuickLog device for a ﬁle system.

▼ To designate a volume as a QuickLog volume

1. Select the volume to be used for the QuickLog device.

2. Choose Actions > QuickLog > Make Log

3. Complete the Make QuickLog Log dialog box as follows:

After you have provided all necessary information in the dialog box, click OK.

Volume Name Check that the correct volume name is displayed in this ﬁeld.

Log Device Number Select the number of the log device to attach to the volume. Log

devices are listed in /dev/qlog.

CreateClusterQuicklog

checkbox (shown only

ifthe volumeis partof a

cluster)

Check this box is you want the Quicklog volume to be available to

the cluster..

Notes:

- The Make Log task is only available if QuickLog is installed/licensed.

- The Make Log task requires a log device number (1-31).

- Only VxFS ﬁle systems can be used with a QuickLog device.

- The speciﬁed volume cannot contain a ﬁle system.

- The size of the speciﬁed volume must be at least 32MB.