SUMMARY: Growing Mirror set on soft partitions

Thanks to all those that replied. We came up with our own solution that
did not require us to recontruct the metadevices.


Create 2 new soft partitions
metattach new soft partitions to submirrors (creating a strip set)
growfs the mirror.



> Hello Sun Gurus,
>
> I currently have a problem I can't seem to google/find in the archives. I
> need to grow a mirror set d66. This set is currently sitting on 2
> concatenated devices, which sit on 2 soft partitions. I know I need to
> grow the soft partitions, but everything I've read in Sun Docs, says I
> can't do this if I've created another device from the soft partitions. Is
> it possible to create a soft mirror(Mirror in Volumn Manager) and then
> create soft partitions on top of that mirror set, or does the mirror need
> to be a hardware based mirror. Any help would be great. I've included the
> dump from metastat d66 at the bottom.
>
> d66: Mirror
>     Submirror 0: d16
>       State: Okay
>     Submirror 1: d26
>       State: Okay
>     Pass: 1
>     Read option: roundrobin (default)
>     Write option: parallel (default)
>     Size: 20962560 blocks (10.0 GB)
>
> d16: Submirror of d66
>     State: Okay
>     Size: 20962560 blocks (10.0 GB)
>     Stripe 0:
>         Device   Start Block  Dbase        State Reloc Hot Spare
>         d86             0     No            Okay   No
>
> d86: Soft Partition
>     Device: c1t0d0s6
>     State: Okay
>     Size: 20971520 blocks (10 GB)
>         Device     Start Block  Dbase Reloc
>         c1t0d0s6          0     No    Yes
>
>         Extent              Start Block              Block count
>              0                  9961479                 20971520
>
>
> d26: Submirror of d66
>     State: Okay
>     Size: 20962560 blocks (10.0 GB)
>     Stripe 0:
>         Device   Start Block  Dbase        State Reloc Hot Spare
>         d76             0     No            Okay   No
>
> d76: Soft Partition
>     Device: c1t1d0s6
>     State: Okay
>     Size: 20971520 blocks (10 GB)
>         Device     Start Block  Dbase Reloc
>         c1t1d0s6          0     No    Yes
>
>         Extent              Start Block              Block count
>              0                  9961479                 20971520
>
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