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InfoScale™ 9.0 File System Programmer's Reference Guide - Solaris

Last Published: 2025-07-24

Product(s): InfoScale & Storage Foundation (9.0)

Platform: Solaris

Creating and assigning policies

The following function calls create and assign a policy using the multi-volume API.

To define a policy for a file system, use the following function call:
```
vxfs_ap_define(fd, fsap_info_ptr, 0);
```
To assign a policy to a file system, use the following function call:
```
vxfs_ap_assign_fs(fd, data_policy, meta_policy);
```
To assign a policy to a file or directory, use the following function call:
```
vxfs_ap_assign_file(fd, data_policy, meta_policy, 0);
```
To assign a policy to a Storage Checkpoint, use the following function call:
```
vxfs_ap_assign_ckpt(fd, checkpoint_name, data_policy, meta_policy);
```
To assign a policy to all Storage Checkpoints, use the following function call:
```
vxfs_ap_assign_ckptchain(fd, data_policy, meta_policy);
```
To set the default allocation policies for newly created Storage Checkpoints, use the following function call:
```
vxfs_ap_assign_ckptdef(fd, data_policy, meta_policy);
```