Ok, there seems to be no way to setup mirroring from the install. I was told instead that I'd need to do everything after the install. I was also told that striping on a boot required disk isn't a good idea, and that I should just mirror the partition. The second note, is there are some partition recommendations for use of the SVM: http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/806-6111/6jf2ve3eu?a=view http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/806-6111/6jf2ve3f5?a=view the above links, courtesy of Darren Dunham provide some more information on the associated details of the SVM configuration. My current plan is to install using 2 out of 6 of my SCSI drives, creating SVM, /usr and / partitions (no home, really - this is an Oracle box only), and then after Solaris 9 is installed, going back, mirroring the disk where those partitions are installed. At that point, I'll also use the SVM to create a set of Raid 1+0 partitions on three drives, if this is possible: Using striping, do the following: half of disk 3, mirrored on disk 4. Half of disk 3 mirrored on disk 5. Half of disk 4 mirrored on disk 5. With the above, I'll probably put 2 SVM partitions on each drive, including on the mirrored drive 1 & 2 combo. Does anyone have any final comments on the above configuration? Warnings/thoughts/etc.? The idea is to keep a hot-swap spare available in case any drive does fail (hopefully not anytime soon). And I need a bit more space than a single Raid 1+0 configuration. I also understand that Solaris software RAID 5 is NOT a good idea, and thus I'm trying to avoid that configuration by using the above. Thanks! Jason McIntosh Jason McIntosh Programmer/Analyst University of Missouri 573-884-3865 GnuPG Key: http://poetshome.com/pubkey.asc [demime 1.01b removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of PGP.sig] _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Mon Jun 30 10:40:59 2003
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