We last left our hero with 73GB disks that would not mirror on Solaris 9 (the metadbs would not survive a reboot) while smaller disks would. I got few responses. Three people were having Out-Of-Office Experiences. One respondent confirmed that I was essentially doing things right. After following up a number of dead ends, I eventually realized that I was running up against a feature of SLVM whereby you can move disks around and it will find them. It does this by concoting and recording a devid (took a few days to ferret out that term) for each disk. One component of this devid is the disk serial number. The 73GB disks I have are third-party refurbished, and do not report serial numbers. Thus SVM could not find unique disks. Never mind that the mddb replicas were identical and in the same location on each disk; it can't depend upon that generally. All is not lost, however. Given the devid term, it's not hard to get Sunsolve to elicit SunAlert/InfoDoc 48730. It describes entries in sd.conf that get it to fake up unique devids for disks without serial numbers. Once this was in place, all was right with the world once again, and the mirrors are silvering as I write. -- Jeff Woolsey {woolsey,jlw}@{jlw,jxh}.com,first.last@gmail.com "A toy robot!!!!" -unlucky Japanese scientist "And Leon's getting laaaarrger!" -Johnny "Delete! Delete! OK!" -Dr. Bronner on disk space management "I didn't get a 'Harrumph!' out of _that_ guy." -Gov Le Petomaine _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Wed Nov 17 11:23:19 2004
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