Volume activation and suspension

When you add a volume to a storage pool, by default, the volume is activated. This means that a metadata server can allocate data to the newly added volume. You can add a volume to a storage pool in a suspended stat; however, no data can be allocated to the volume until you activate it.

A volume can be in a suspended state if you add it to a storage pool without activating it. You can also change the state of a volume from activated to suspended. When a volume is in a suspended state, a metadata server cannot allocate any data to it.

Parent topic: Volumes

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