Upgrading From JFS, OnlineJFS, and Earlier VxFS Version Layouts

Prerequisites

• Perform a full backup of the file system before upgrading to a new disk layout.

Usage Notes

• 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 three file system disk layouts: Versions 4, 5, and 6. New file systems are created with the Version 6 (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.

  To upgrade an existing VxFS file system to a new file system disk layout version

Use the vxupgrade command to upgrade to Version 4, 5, or 6 disk layout:

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

Example

This is an example of upgrading to disk layout Version 6.

  To use Quick I/O after upgrading the file system disk layout to Version 4, 5, or 6

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 for more information.

3. Restart the database.

  To use Oracle Disk Manager after upgrading the file system disk layout to Version 4, 5, or 6

Simply use the files. Because ODM uses regular files, no setup is required.