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Mounting a Volume Set [ Volume Management ] MPE/iX 5.0 Documentation


Volume Management

Mounting a Volume Set 

Volume management makes volume sets available as soon as they are
physically recognized by the system.  The system automatically recognizes
a volume set after the volumes have been added to the volume set, upon
the power on of the disk drive, or at the boot of the system.

In order to access data from a volume set, only the volumes where the
data is located and the master of the volume set need to be mounted.  The
system volume set master (LDEV 1) must be mounted on the disk drive at
all times.  Nonsystem volumes sets are not necessary to system operation
and can be removed or replaced online without affecting system operation.
This means that a nonsystem drive can fail without bringing down the
system.

No mount command is needed to access the volume set.  However, there are
system mount commands that are used to notify the system that you want
the volume set to remain physically mounted for a period of time.  The
system mount commands are described in chapter 5.

As long as the I/O path to the device has been configured, any volume set
may be mounted on any system.  A maximum of 32 volume sets may be mounted
on the system at one time.



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