Hi there
I am about to mirror a Solaris 10 x86 box (SunFire X4100) onto a secondary disk using svm (current system is one disk). My question is this, on X86 boxes there is a slice 8 defined as boot partition (and also a slice 9, dunno what its used for tho). Do I need to mirror this boot slice... (0 Replies)
Is it possible to create a Mirror with zfs ??
I'm experimented user with Solstice Disk suite.
Or Sun Volume manager or veritas volume manager.
But, i would like switch from Disksuite to Zfs.
All my mirrored disks. (1 Reply)
Hi,
Recently I faced with need of analyze root disk. I figured out two possible ways to do it:
1. Practical. Boot from CD and run format
2. Theoretical. Create live upgrade boot environment on another disk, activate it, reboot, unmont all root disk partitions and run format.
I've already... (3 Replies)
I am a new Unix Sys Admin who is learning mostly from books with minimal classroom training (ie: no certificates, training is largely hands-on, conducted at work). I work with Solaris 8 through 10, and with some fairly outdated hardware. In my work restoring old workstations I have been instructed... (2 Replies)
Hi Folks,
I am trying to make a script to assign all diskspace to slice 0, on multiple sized disks. Since the disks are new they may need to be labelled also to avoid the error: Cannot get disk geometry
Below is my code struggling with logic which doesn't seem to be producing the desired... (0 Replies)
Hi there,
I am trying to do root volume mirroring on SunFire V210 server. I have two disks in it.First one is c1t0do and second one is c1t1do. Both disks already have partitions in them so I am deleting the partitions of second disk(c1t1do) using format command and selecting cylinder start 0... (2 Replies)
Hi all,
I am using SPARC Solaris 11.1 with EFI labelled disks.
I am new to ZFS file systems and slightly stuck when trying to create a partition (slice) on one of my LUNs.
EFI labels use sectors and blocks and I am not sure how exactly it works.
From here I can try and create a... (2 Replies)
Hi,
How to to make a slice and define as ufs from zpool? Please advice me.
Thanks.
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Before slice:
Part Tag Flag Cylinders Size Blocks
0 root wm 0 ... (2 Replies)
I have a 240GB disk as rpool. I have installed Solaris 11.3 to a partition which is 110GB. Now I have another 130GB which is unallocated. I want to use that additional space as a temporary folder to be shared between Solaris and Linux. The additional space had no /dev/dsk/c2t4... entry so I used... (8 Replies)
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xbdback
XBDBACK(4) BSD/xen Kernel Interfaces Manual XBDBACK(4)NAME
xbdback -- Xen backend paravirtualized block device interface
SYNOPSIS
pseudo-device xbdback
DESCRIPTION
The xbdback interface forms the backend part of the paravirtualized drivers used by Xen domains to offer a block device interface, similar to
a hard disk. xbdback interfaces are backed either by a physical device directly, or an image file mounted through vnd(4).
All xbdback interfaces follow the ``xbdbackXiY'' naming convention, where 'X' represents the guest domain identifier, and 'Y' an arbitrary
identifier. This identifier is usually associated to the device node as seen by the guest using major(3) and minor(3) numbers. For example,
identifier ``769'' (0x301) means major 3 and minor 1, identified as ``hda1'' under Linux convention. For NetBSD, the guest device name spec-
ified in the guest configuration file does not matter, and can be chosen arbitrarily.
A xbdback interface will appear as a xbd(4) block device inside a NetBSD guest domain. In the XenStore, xbd and xbdback are identified by
``vbd'' (virtual block device) entries.
DIAGNOSTICS
xbd backend: attach device %s (size %d) for domain %d Gives the device used as xbdback interface for the given guest domain, and its size,
in bytes.
xbd backend 0x%x for domain %d using event channel %d, protocol %s Gives the backend identifier, guest domain ID, event channel ID, and pro-
tocol used for block level communication.
xbdback %s: can't VOP_OPEN device 0x%x: %d When this message appears in the system message buffer with error 16 (EBUSY), the device is
likely to be already mounted. It must be unmounted first, as the system will refuse to open it a second time.
SEE ALSO vnd(4), xbd(4), xenbus(4)HISTORY
The xbdback driver first appeared in NetBSD 4.0.
AUTHORS
The xbdback driver was written by Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@NetBSD.org>.
BSD June 7, 2011 BSD