OK, I know I know almost nothing about Veritas. All I knew was that
is let us put more 2GB slices on a disk than whatever the older way
was, and in this era of large disks that was a Good Thing.

Now I've found out that when it detects a disk problem it moves the
contents of that slice to another bit of disk.

That leads me to wonder how much IDS knows about volumn manager -
especially since the mail for 'root' has stuff like the following in,
implying it actually knows quite a lot:

From: Super-User <root>
Message-Id: <200706241000.l5OA0w104833 (AT) www (DOT) houstest.gov.uk>
To: root
Subject: Volume Manager failures on host testhse2
Content-Length: 58

Recovery complete for volume id-02 in disk group rootdg.

We have symbolic links to the complicated long names in /devices that
IDS uses - I suspect those do not get altered so still point to the
old suspect bit of disk. Correct?

Thankfully we don't have RAID5 - or if we did it was the customer's IT
department's bright idea made without consulting me - we should have
mirroring.

Final question: Veritas notifies root via mail. We should not have
access to that, so does anyone know a URL explaining how to get the
stuff mailed to a different user (one we use a lot) so that we know
when this sort of caper is going on?

I know the customer and their IT should be able to answer this,
but....

TIA