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Operating Systems Solaris Why Veritas is not used for root file system. Post 302424479 by jlliagre on Tuesday 25th of May 2010 10:21:41 AM
Old 05-25-2010
@Reboot: Beware not confusing volume management and file systems. VxFS isn't supported by the OpenBoot Prom so you just can't boot a kernel located on such a file system. Only UFS and now ZFS can be used to boot Solaris.
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vxumount(1M)															      vxumount(1M)

NAME
vxumount - unmount a VxFS file system SYNOPSIS
{special|mount_point} DESCRIPTION
unmounts a currently mounted VxFS file system, which you can specify either as a mount_point or as special, the device on which the file system resides. Note: Only a privileged user can unmount file systems. Options recognizes the following option: Specifies the VxFS-specific options in a comma-separated list. The available argument is: Unmounts a VxFS file system even if it contains a busy file. If is not specified, does not unmount the file system if it contains a busy file. Programs that try to access files after a file system is forcibly unmounted receive an EIO error. Caution: Using the option can cause data loss for open files. Operands recognizes the following operands: mount_point Name of the mount point for a VxFS file system. special The device on which the file system resides. FILES
table of mounted file systems SEE ALSO
fsadm_vxfs(1M), mkfs_vxfs(1M), mount(1M), mount_vxfs(1M), setmnt(1M), fsync(2), setuid(2), fs_vxfs(4), mnttab(4), vxfsio(7). vxumount(1M)
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