VERITAS Volume Manager 4.1 Administrator's Guide

Creating Volumes

Creating a RAID-5 Volume

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# vxassist -b make volraid 10g layout=raid5 ncol=3 nlog=2 \

logdisk=disk07,disk08 disk04 disk05 disk06

NOTE The number of logs must equal the number of disks speciﬁed to logdisk.

For more information about ordered allocation, see “Specifying Ordered

Allocation of Storage to Volumes” on page 237 and the vxassist(1M)

manual page.

If you need to add more logs to a RAID-5 volume at a later date, follow

the procedure described in “Adding a RAID-5 Log” on page 285.