Summary : More than 7 partitions needed on disk suite mirrored setup

Hi,

Thanks to Michael Schneider for his quick response.  Creating soft
partitions on top of a mirror meta device is possible using disk suite.
 For example :

<metastat>
d5: Mirror
    Submirror 0: d15
      State: Okay
    Submirror 1: d25
      State: Okay
    Pass: 1
    Read option: roundrobin (default)
    Write option: parallel (default)
    Size: 6349824 blocks (50.0 GB)

d15: Submirror of d5
    State: Okay
    Size: 6349824 blocks (50.0 GB)
    Stripe 0:
        Device     Start Block  Dbase        State Reloc Hot Spare
        c1t0d0s5          0     No            Okay   Yes


d25: Submirror of d5
    State: Okay
    Size: 6349824 blocks (50.0 GB)
    Stripe 0:
        Device     Start Block  Dbase        State Reloc Hot Spare
        c1t1d0s5          0     No            Okay   Yes
</metastat>

# metainit d19 -p d5 10gb
# metainit d29 -p d5 10gb
# metainit d39 -p d5 10gb
# metainit d49 -p d5 10gb
# metainit d59 -p d5 10gb

Thanks,

Alex.
--
Alex Dyas , UNIX , PSINet , Geneva


Dyas, Alex wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We have a Sun Fire V210 with two disks which are in a standard mirrored
> configuration using disk suite.  6 partitions have been taken for the
> OS, so I have one spare.
> 
> We have been asked to provide up to 14 (maybe more) distinct partitions
> on this machine, (these cannot be simply directories).  Is this possible?
> 
> I have done this in the past using soft partitions with disk suite, but
> on a hardware RAID 5 base, so I wasn't using disk suite to do the
> mirroring as well.
> 
> The option of adding more physical disks is being considered, but the
> customer would like to avoid the extra cost.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Alex.
> -- 
> Alex Dyas , UNIX , PSINet , Geneva
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