R: [Sunhelp] difference between VM and DiskSuite

[Giopettone]

Regan,excuse me
but  what exactly do you mean when you say that it looses information for
the mirrored root file system?
Thanks
Giorgio
----- Original Message -----
From: Reagen Ward <ward at zilla.nu>
To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2000 7:29 PM
Subject: Re: [Sunhelp] difference between VM and DiskSuite


> On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 12:35:09PM -0400, William Ng wrote:
> > All,
> > I have a question, I would like to know what is the difference between
> > Vertias Volume Manager and Sun DiskSuite? Or any web site that mentions,
> > please let me know. Thanks.
>
> Veritas costs a lot more, for one.  It has the ability to let you
grow/shrink
> filesystems, take snapshots of a filesystem for backup, all kinds of
stuff.
> DiskSuite can only let you grow if you have another slice available; it's
> entirely slice-based.
>
> Veritas has two big downsides:  1.  It looses slice information on the
mirror
> of a mirrored root disk, and 2.  Since it's not intergrated with the OS,
good
> luck booting from a CD and trying to repair damaged filesystems.
>
> What we do at work is use DiskSuite to mirror the root disk, and use VM
for all
> the other storage.
>
> > Also one more question on what is the command to capture the incoming
> > info:
> > Here is the scenario:
> > System A has web server using port 80 and someone on system B use web
> > browser to access system A web server. Is there any command that A can
> > capture where system B come from or info?
>
> Netstat might have what you need.
>
> Reagen
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