Veritas Storage Foundation™ for Oracle 5.0.1 Administrator's Guide

■ The vxupgrade command lets you to upgrade the VxFS file system
disk layout while the file system is mounted. See the
vxupgrade(1M) manual page for more details.
■ VxFS supports four file system disk layouts: Versions 4, 5, 6, and
7. New file systems are created with the Version 7 (for large file
systems) disk layout by default when the current version of Veritas
Storage Foundation for Oracle is installed on a system. You must
minimally upgrade to Version 4 disk layout if you want to use the
Storage Rollback or Veritas NetBackup BLI Backup features.
Usage notes
To upgrade an existing VxFS file system to a new file system disk layout version
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Use the vxupgradecommand to upgrade to Version 4, 5, 6, or 7 disk layout:
# /opt/VRTS/bin/vxupgrade -n new_version new_version/mount_point
where:
■ new_version is the version of the file system disk layout you want to
upgrade to
■ /mount_point is the location where the file system is mounted
This is an example of upgrading to disk layout Version 7:
# /opt/VRTS/bin/vxupgrade -n 7 /db01
To use Quick I/O after upgrading the file system disk layout to version 4, 5, 6, or 7
1
Shut down the database.
2
Make each database file accessible as a Quick I/O file.
See “Accessing regular VxFS files as Quick I/O files” on page 83.
3
Restart the database.
To use Oracle Disk Manager after upgrading the file system disk layout to version
4, 5, 6, or 7
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Simply use the files. Because ODM uses regular files, no setup is required.
Converting from raw devices
If the database is currently using raw disks or volumes, use one of the following
procedures to use VxFS with the Quick I/O feature or Oracle Disk Manager.
Warning: The procedure provided assumes that the database runs on a single file
system after the upgrade.
Converting existing database configurations to VxFS
Converting from raw devices
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