Veritas Storage Foundation™ for Oracle 5.0.1 Administrator's Guide

7
Restore the backup created in step 2 to the new VxFS file system.
8
Restart the database.
Converting native file systems to VxFS with Quick I/O
If you are currently using file systems native to your operating system, use the
procedure to upgrade each file system used by the database to a VxFS file system
with Quick I/O.
To convert a native file system to VxFS with Quick I/O
1
Shut down the database.
2
Remove the entry for the UFS file system from the /etc/filesystems file.
3
Create a backup of the HFS file system.
4
Unmount the HFS file system.
5
Remove the entry for the HFS file system from the /etc/fstab file.
6
Create a VxFS file system of the same size as the original HFS file system,
using the mount point where the HFS file system was originally mounted.
See “Creating a VxFS file system ” on page 56.
7
Preallocate Quick I/O files using qiomkfile.
See “Creating database files as Quick I/O files using qiomkfile” on page 79.
8
Restore the backup that you created earlier to the Quick I/O files in the new
VxFS file system.
9
Restart the database.
Upgrading from earlier VxFS version layouts
Before starting the upgrade process, make sure the following conditions have
been met:
■ Perform a full backup of the file system before upgrading to a new
disk layout.
Prerequisites
179Converting existing database configurations to VxFS
Converting native file systems to VxFS with Quick I/O