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- lvtab - information about logical volumes
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- The file /_e_t_c/_l_v_t_a_b describes the logical volumes used by the local
- machine. There is an entry in this file for every logical volume which
- is used by the system. This subsystem is no longer supported with the
- current release. The file format description exists in order to
- facilitate conversion to its replacement XLV.
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- The file consists of entries which have the form:
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- _v_o_l_u_m_e__d_e_v_i_c_e__n_a_m_e:[_v_o_l_u_m_e__n_a_m_e]:[_o_p_t_i_o_n_s:]_d_e_v_i_c_e__p_a_t_h_n_a_m_e_s
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- For example:
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- lv0:logical volume test:stripes=3:devs=/dev/dsk/ips0d1s7, \
- /dev/dsk/ips0d2s7, /dev/dsk/ips0d3s7
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- Fields are separated by colons, and lines can be continued by the usual
- backslash convention as illustrated above. A `#' as the first non-white
- character indicates a comment; blank lines can be present in the file and
- are ignored.
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- The fields in each entry have the following significance:
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- _v_o_l_u_m_e__d_e_v_i_c_e__n_a_m_e
- This indicates the names of the special files through which the
- system accesses the logical volume. In the above example, the entry
- _l_v_0 implies that the logical volume is accessed via the device
- special files /dev/dsk/lv0 and /dev/rdsk/lv0. Note that volume
- device names are expected to be of the form 'lv' followed by one or
- 2 digits; this is enforced by the logical volume utilities.
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- _v_o_l_u_m_e _n_a_m_e
- This is a human-readable identifying name for the logical volume.
- The logical volume labels on the disks constituting a volume also
- carry a copy of the volume name, so utilities are able to check that
- the logical volume on the disks physically present is actually the
- volume expected by /_e_t_c/_l_v_t_a_b.
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- This field can be null (indicated by a second colon immediately
- following the one terminating the _v_o_l_u_m_e__d_e_v_i_c_e__n_a_m_e field). This
- is legal but deprecated, since in this case, no identity check of
- the logical volume can be done by the utilities.
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- _o_p_t_i_o_n_s
- Some numerical options concerning the volume can appear. These are
- specified in the format "option_name=number:". There must be no
- space between the option_name, the '=' sign, the numerical value
- given, and the terminating colon. Note that since the number of
- options is variable, the terminating colon is considered part of the
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- option entry: it is not necessary to indicate omitted options.
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- Currently recognized options are:
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- ssssttttrrrriiiippppeeeessss====
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- The ssssttttrrrriiiippppeeeessss option allows a striped logical volume to be created;
- the value of the parameter specifies the number of ways the volume
- storage is striped across its constituent devices. If this option
- is omitted, the logical volume is unstriped.
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- The sssstttteeeepppp option is meaningful only for striped volumes (and is
- ignored otherwise); it specifies the granularity with which the
- storage is to be round-robin distributed over the constituent
- devices. If this option is omitted, the default sssstttteeeepppp value is the
- device tracksize; this is generally a good value so the sssstttteeeepppp option
- is not normally needed. sssstttteeeepppp is in units of 512-byte blocks.
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- _d_e_v_i_c_e__p_a_t_h_n_a_m_e_s
- Following any numerical options, there must be a list of the block
- special file pathnames of the devices constituting the logical
- volume. This is introduced by the keyword
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- The pathnames must be comma-separated.
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- Each pathname should be the name of the special file for a disk
- device partition in the /_d_e_v/_d_s_k directory. The partition must be
- one which is legal for use as normal data storage--it must not be
- one of the dedicated partitions such as the disk volume label, track
- replacement area, and so on.
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- If the volume is striped, some restrictions apply: the number of
- pathnames must be a multiple of ssssttttrrrriiiippppeeeessss. Further, considering the
- pathnames as successive groups, each of ssssttttrrrriiiippppeeeessss pathnames, the
- devices in each group must be all of the same size.
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- To obtain best performance from striping, each disk (within every
- group of ssssttttrrrriiiippppeeeessss disks) should be on a separate controller.
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- The entries from this file are accessed using the program _l_v__t_o__x_l_v(1M),
- which outputs a conversion script to translate between the two formats.
- The file structure is defined in the <_l_v_t_a_b._h> include file.
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- lv_to_xlv(1M),
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