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Usage notes

The qiomkfile command creates two files: a regular file with preallocated, contiguous space, and a file that is a symbolic link pointing to the Quick I/O name extension.
See the qiomkfile(1M) manual page for more information.

-a	Creates a symbolic link with an absolute path name for a specified file. Use the -a option when absolute path names are required. However, the default is to create a symbolic link with a relative path name.
-e	Extends a file by a specified amount to allow tablespace resizing.
-r	Increases the file to a specified size to allow tablespace resizing.
-s	Specifies the space to preallocate for a file in bytes, kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, or sectors (512 bytes) by adding a k, K, m, M, g, G, s, or S suffix. The default is bytes - you do not need to attach a suffix to specify the value in bytes. The size of the file that is preallocated is the total size of the file (including the header) rounded to the nearest multiple of the file system block size.

Warning:

Exercise caution when using absolute path names. Extra steps may be required during database backup and restore procedures to preserve symbolic links. If you restore files to directories different from the original paths, you must change the symbolic links that use absolute path names to point to the new path names before the database is restarted.