Storage Foundation for Oracle® RAC 7.4.1 Configuration and Upgrade Guide - Solaris

Upgrading disk layout versions

In this release, you can create and mount only file systems with disk layout version 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15. You can local mount disk layout version 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 to upgrade to a later disk layout version.

Disk layout version 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 are deprecated and you cannot cluster mount an existing file system that has any of these versions. To upgrade a cluster file system from any of these deprecated versions, you must local mount the file system and then upgrade it using the vxupgrade utility or the vxfsconvert utility.

The vxupgrade utility enables you to upgrade the disk layout while the file system is online. However, the vxfsconvert utility enables you to upgrade the disk layout while the file system is offline.

If you use the vxupgrade utility, you must incrementally upgrade the disk layout versions. However, you can directly upgrade to a desired version, using the vxfsconvert utility.

For example, to upgrade from disk layout version 6 to a disk layout version 11, using the vxupgrade utility:

# vxupgrade -n 7 /mnt
# vxupgrade -n 8 /mnt
# vxupgrade -n 9 /mnt
# vxupgrade -n 10 /mnt
# vxupgrade -n 11 /mnt

See the vxupgrade(1M) manual page.

See the vxfsconvert(1M) manual page.

Use the following command to check your disk layout version:

# fstyp -v /dev/vx/dsk/dg1/vol1 | grep -i version

For more information about disk layout versions, see the Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC Administrator's Guide.