'active' means a volume has written to and has not been closed or
unmounted since having been written.  'clean' means it has not been
written to or has been unmounted or closed.
-- 
        Ronald S. Karr
        tron |-<=>-|    [EMAIL PROTECTED]

On September  1, 2006, Doug Morgan wrote:
 >I am not sure this works across all OS's and all VxVM versions, but it seams 
 >to work on Solaris and 3.1.1-3.5 at least.  The state column in a "vxprint 
 >-l <volume>"  output shows if a RAW volume is in use by Sybase.  If the 
 >volume is in use by Sybase, the state will have "(active)" at the end of the 
 >line.  If not, it will show "(clean)" at the end.
 >
 >vxprint -l stab1
 >
 >Disk group: sybasedg
 >
 >Volume:   stab1
 >info:     len=1024000
 >type:     usetype=fsgen
 >state:    state=ACTIVE kernel=ENABLED cdsrecovery=0/0 (active)
 >assoc:    plexes=stab1-03,stab1-01,stab1-02
 >policies: read=SELECT (round-robin) exceptions=GEN_DET_SPARSE
 >flags:    open badlog writeback
 >comment:  subase stab1 device
 >logging:  type=REGION loglen=5 serial=0/0 (disabled)
 >apprecov: seqno=0
 >recov_id=0
 >device:   minor=48007 bdev=155/48007 cdev=155/48007
 >path=/dev/vx/dsk/sybasedg/stab1
 >perms:    user=sybase group=dba mode=0600
 >
 >
 >Douglas
 >
 >
 >>From: "Biju Krishnan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 >>To: veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
 >>Subject: [Veritas-vx] How to identify a raw volume from vxprint or any 
 >>othermeans
 >>Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2006 01:44:37 +0530
 >>
 >>Hi,
 >>
 >>I would like to know as to how we could find out whether a volume is RAW
 >>from the vxprint output.
 >>
 >>Secondly is  there ANY method to assure that a volume is used RAW ?? 
 >>Suppose
 >>no filesystems are mounted.
 >>
 >>--
 >>Regards,
 >>PP BIJU KRISHNAN
 >>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 >>B.E/SCSA/BCSD                   Navi Mumbai,India
 >
 >
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