[Sunhelp] Mirror

[Adams, Wayne W]

Wayne W. Adams
Unix Delivery Services, G-4755
Boeing Co., Bellevue Wa. MS:7M-HA
(425)957-5157 
Wayne.W.Adams at boeing.com

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> From: 	Magnus Abrante[SMTP:magnus.abrante at nocke.Sweden.Sun.COM]
> Reply To: 	sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Sent: 	Friday, July 21, 2000 10:11 AM
> To: 	sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject: 	Re: [Sunhelp] Mirror
> 
> 
> Yes, you will need at least 2 metadatabases, and at least 2 on each disk,
> the system needs to find more than half of the replicas inorder to boot.
> 
> Those databases is were disksuite keeps its information, so you need them :)
> 
> format:
> prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c0t2d0s2 | fmthard -s - /dev/rdsk/<newdisk>s2
> 
> > I've a new machine with two disks and I want to mirror the first onto
> > the second.
> > I've installed Solaris 8 on the first disk. It has three partitions
> > /dev/dsk/c0t1d0s0    /
> > /dev/dsk/c0t1d0s1    swap
> > /dev/dsk/c0t1d0s6    /export
> > 
> > The second disk is on c0t2d0 and is not formatted.
> > 
> > First question : Do I format the second disk similar to the one
> > before creatind the mirror with disksuite ?
> > 
> > Second: D0 I have to create State database replicas ?
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
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