Veritas Volume Manager 5.1 SP1 Administrator"s Guide (5900-1506, April 2011)

See “Volume states” on page 338.
Volume states
Table 9-1 shows the volume states that may be displayed by VxVM commands
such as vxprint.
Table 9-1
Volume states
DescriptionVolume state
The volume has been started (the kernel state is currently ENABLED)
or was in use (the kernel state was ENABLED) when the machine was
rebooted.
If the volume is ENABLED, the state of its plexes at any moment is
not certain (because the volume is in use). If the volume is DISABLED,
the plexes cannot be guaranteed to be consistent, but are made
consistent when the volume is started.
For a RAID-5 volume, if the volume is DISABLED, parity cannot be
guaranteed to be synchronized.
ACTIVE
The volume is not started (the kernel state is DISABLED) and its plexes
are synchronized. For a RAID-5 volume, its plex stripes are consistent
and its parity is good.
CLEAN
The volume contents are not initialized. When the volume is EMPTY,
the kernel state is always DISABLED.
EMPTY
The contents of an instant snapshot volume no longer represent a
true point-in-time image of the original volume.
INVALID
You must resynchronize the volume the next time it is started. A
RAID-5 volume requires a parity resynchronization.
NEEDSYNC
The volume is in a transient state as part of a log replay. A log replay
occurs when it becomes necessary to use logged parity and data. This
state is only applied to RAID-5 volumes.
REPLAY
Administering volumes
Displaying volume information
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