Veritas File System 5.1 SP1 Administrator"s Guide (5900-1499, April 2011)

Disk layout

This appendix includes the following topics:

■ About disk layouts

■ Supported disk layouts and operating systems

■ VxFS Version 4 disk layout

■ VxFS Version 5 disk layout

■ VxFS Version 6 disk layout

■ VxFS Version 7 disk layout

■ VxFS Version 8 disk layout

About disk layouts

The disk layout is the way file system information is stored on disk. On VxFS,

several different disk layout versions were created to take advantage of evolving

technological developments.

The disk layout versions used on VxFS are:

Not SupportedVersion 1 disk layout is the original VxFS disk layout

provided with pre-2.0 versions of VxFS.

Version 1

Not SupportedVersion 2 disk layout supports features such as filesets,

dynamic inode allocation, and enhanced security. The

Version 2 layout is available with and without quotas

support.

Version 2

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