Dell External OEMR 2970 User Guide - Page 153

Table 8-20. Read Policy Paramaters Read Policy Read ahead Adaptive read ahead No read ahead Read cache No read cache readpolicy=ra | ara | nra | rc | nrc Parameter Specification readpolicy=ra readpolicy=ara readpolicy=nra readpolicy=rc readpolicy=nrc [writepolicy=] Parameter (Optional) Different controllers support different write policies. See the online help for more information. The following table indicates how to specify the [writepolicy=] parameter for each of the write policies. Table 8-21. Write Policy Parameters Write Policy Write-back cache Write-through cache Write cache Force write back No write cache writepolicy=wb | wt | wc | fwb | nwc Parameter Specification writepolicy=wb writepolicy=wt writepolicy=wc writepolicy=fwb writepolicy=nwc [name=] Parameter (Optional) Use this parameter to specify a name for the virtual disk. For example: name=VirtualDisk1 NOTE: The CERC SATA 1.5/2s controller does not allow you to specify a virtual disk name. The virtual disk will be created with a default name. [spanlength=] Parameter (Required for RAID 50) Use this parameter to specify the number of physical disks to be included in each stripe. This parameter only applies to RAID 50 virtual disks. If you are not creating a RAID 50 virtual disk, do not specify this parameter. For example: spanlength=3 Using the Storage Management Service 153