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Loading and unloading the file system module

On Solaris 8, 9, and 10, the vxfs file system module automatically loads on the first reference to a VxFS file system. This occurs when a user tries to mount a VxFS disk layout. In some instances, you may want to load the file system module manually. To do this, first load vxfs, then vxportal. vxportal is a pseudo device driver that enables VxFS commands to issue ioctls to the VxFS modules even when there are no file systems mounted on the system.

    # modload /kernel/fs/vxfs

 # modload /kernel/drv/vxportal
 

If you have a license for the Veritas Quick I/O feature, you can load its kernel modules:

# modload /usr/kernel/drv/sparcv9/fdd

To determine if the modules successfully loaded, enter:

    # modinfo | grep vxportal

 # modinfo | grep vxfs
 

The above commands provide information about the modules. The first field in the output is the module ID.

You can unload the module by entering:

    # modunload -i portal_module_id

 # modunload -i vxfs_module_id
 

The modunload command fails if any mounted VxFS file systems exist. To determine if any VxFS file systems are mounted, enter:

# df -F vxfs