[rescue] So, I'm bringing up my E3000....

[Francois Dion]

Skeezics Boondoggle wrote:

>On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Brian Dunbar wrote:
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>>Yah, I've thought some and the situation applied to a specific 
>>instance, specific machine, a few jobs ago.  My production boxes boot 
>>to a mirrored disk, so I dunno why that folklore was jammed in there.  
>>I've excised it.
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>Sorry to chime in late, but I've always used mirrored root disks (with
>DiskSuite, not Veritas) for a couple of reasons:
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>3.  Sun now actually recommends doing it the way I've been doing it for
>years before they published their Blueprints(tm) series of "best
>practices"...
>


Under S9, you can use SVM (Solaris Volume manager).

There is a good blueprint to read:
"Configuring Boot Disks with Solaris Volume Manager Software"
by Erik Vanden Meersch and Kristien Hens
Sun BluePrints Online - October 2002

Even talks about 3 disk configuration (mirrored pair + 1) and 
contingency vs hot spare.

Francois