VERITAS Volume Manager 4.1 Administrator's Guide

Administering Volumes
Displaying Volume Information
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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.