02-25-2008
Well you could use external disks for vg00, if you have spare scsi cards...
Here is a k360 where I boot from a small HDS 5750 (no mirrors also but alternate paths on FW-SCSCI):
aco $ vgdisplay -v vg00
--- Volume groups ---
VG Name /dev/vg00
VG Write Access read/write
VG Status available
Max LV 255
Cur LV 12
Open LV 12
Max PV 16
Cur PV 1
Act PV 1
Max PE per PV 5000
VGDA 2
PE Size (Mbytes) 4
Total PE 2842
Alloc PE 1892
Free PE 950
Total PVG 0
Total Spare PVs 0
Total Spare PVs in use 0
--- Logical volumes ---
LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol1
LV Status available/syncd
LV Size (Mbytes) 100
Current LE 25
Allocated PE 25
Used PV 1
LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol2
LV Status available/syncd
LV Size (Mbytes) 1024
Current LE 256
Allocated PE 256
Used PV 1
LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol3
LV Status available/syncd
LV Size (Mbytes) 100
Current LE 25
Allocated PE 25
Used PV 1
LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol4
LV Status available/syncd
LV Size (Mbytes) 300
Current LE 75
Allocated PE 75
Used PV 1
LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol5
LV Status available/syncd
LV Size (Mbytes) 252
Current LE 63
Allocated PE 63
Used PV 1
LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol6
LV Status available/syncd
LV Size (Mbytes) 800
Current LE 200
Allocated PE 200
Used PV 1
LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol7
LV Status available/syncd
LV Size (Mbytes) 712
Current LE 178
Allocated PE 178
Used PV 1
LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol8
LV Status available/syncd
LV Size (Mbytes) 932
Current LE 233
Allocated PE 233
Used PV 1
LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol9
LV Status available/syncd
LV Size (Mbytes) 2048
Current LE 512
Allocated PE 512
Used PV 1
LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol10
LV Status available/syncd
LV Size (Mbytes) 700
Current LE 175
Allocated PE 175
Used PV 1
LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol11
LV Status available/syncd
LV Size (Mbytes) 400
Current LE 100
Allocated PE 100
Used PV 1
LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol12
LV Status available/syncd
LV Size (Mbytes) 200
Current LE 50
Allocated PE 50
Used PV 1
--- Physical volumes ---
PV Name /dev/dsk/c1t0d0
PV Name /dev/dsk/c0t0d0 Alternate Link
PV Status available
Total PE 2842
Free PE 950
aco $
When I did this in 98 it was because the system booted 2x faster than on the K internal disks (still in the box unused...)
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