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Operating Systems Solaris Liveupgrade with RAID Post 302758199 by chilinski on Friday 18th of January 2013 03:05:14 PM

01-18-2013

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Liveupgrade with RAID

I am not a Solaris maven.

I've read and read and read the docs, and I just don't get it, so I'm here to ask for clarification.

I have a T2000/Solaris10u8. It has three drives. Drive 0 and Drive 1 are mirrored with metaxxxxx. Drive 2 has some untouchable data. It hasn't been treated nicely in a very long time and now it's on my plate.

It needs to be patched. So my approach was to install a fourth drive (Drive 3) and do a lucreate to copy the system to a backup environment on Drive 3. I then patched the backup and luactivate(d) it and booted from it. Everything was fine. Since it's only one drive, it exists as c1t3d0s0.

So after successful testing, I want to return control to Drive 0 so I can take Drive 3 out and use it on the next machine to update. Lumake didn't like me trying to use either md0 or c1t0d0s0. In the end I got rid of the original BE that was on Drive 0 (ludelete) and did a lucreate from Drive 3 to Drive 0 (using its /dev/md/dsk/d0 address). When I activated Drive 0 and rebooted, it came up just fine. The mirror was in place and metastat reported all was good.

But that all seemed kind of a clunky way to do it. Anyone have a better, more educated and experienced approach?

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gnome2::vfs::drive

Gnome2::VFS::Drive(3pm) 				User Contributed Perl Documentation				   Gnome2::VFS::Drive(3pm)

NAME

       Gnome2::VFS::Drive - Container around Gnome2::VFS::Volume

HIERARCHY

	 Glib::Object
	 +----Gnome2::VFS::Drive

METHODS

   string = $drive->get_activation_uri
   integer = $a->compare ($b)
       o   $b (Gnome2::VFS::Drive)

   string = $drive->get_device_path
   devicetype = $drive->get_device_type
   string = $drive->get_display_name
   $drive->eject ($func, $data=undef)
       o   $func (scalar)

       o   $data (scalar)

   string = $drive->get_hal_udi
       Since: vfs 2.8

   string = $drive->get_icon
   unsigned = $drive->get_id
   boolean = $drive->is_connected
   boolean = $drive->is_mounted
   boolean = $drive->is_user_visible
   $drive->mount ($func, $data=undef)
       o   $func (scalar)

       o   $data (scalar)

   list = $drive->get_mounted_volumes
       Since: vfs 2.8

   boolean = $drive->needs_eject
       Since: vfs 2.16

   $drive->unmount ($func, $data=undef)
       o   $func (scalar)

       o   $data (scalar)

SIGNALS

       volume-mounted (Gnome2::VFS::Drive, Gnome2::VFS::Volume)
       volume-pre-unmount (Gnome2::VFS::Drive, Gnome2::VFS::Volume)
       volume-unmounted (Gnome2::VFS::Drive, Gnome2::VFS::Volume)

ENUMS AND FLAGS

   enum Gnome2::VFS::DeviceType
       o   'unknown' / 'GNOME_VFS_DEVICE_TYPE_UNKNOWN'

       o   'audio-cd' / 'GNOME_VFS_DEVICE_TYPE_AUDIO_CD'

       o   'video-dvd' / 'GNOME_VFS_DEVICE_TYPE_VIDEO_DVD'

       o   'harddrive' / 'GNOME_VFS_DEVICE_TYPE_HARDDRIVE'

       o   'cdrom' / 'GNOME_VFS_DEVICE_TYPE_CDROM'

       o   'floppy' / 'GNOME_VFS_DEVICE_TYPE_FLOPPY'

       o   'zip' / 'GNOME_VFS_DEVICE_TYPE_ZIP'

       o   'jaz' / 'GNOME_VFS_DEVICE_TYPE_JAZ'

       o   'nfs' / 'GNOME_VFS_DEVICE_TYPE_NFS'

       o   'autofs' / 'GNOME_VFS_DEVICE_TYPE_AUTOFS'

       o   'camera' / 'GNOME_VFS_DEVICE_TYPE_CAMERA'

       o   'memory-stick' / 'GNOME_VFS_DEVICE_TYPE_MEMORY_STICK'

       o   'smb' / 'GNOME_VFS_DEVICE_TYPE_SMB'

       o   'apple' / 'GNOME_VFS_DEVICE_TYPE_APPLE'

       o   'music-player' / 'GNOME_VFS_DEVICE_TYPE_MUSIC_PLAYER'

       o   'windows' / 'GNOME_VFS_DEVICE_TYPE_WINDOWS'

       o   'loopback' / 'GNOME_VFS_DEVICE_TYPE_LOOPBACK'

       o   'network' / 'GNOME_VFS_DEVICE_TYPE_NETWORK'

SEE ALSO

       Gnome2::VFS, Glib::Object

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2003-2007 by the gtk2-perl team.

       This software is licensed under the LGPL.  See Gnome2::VFS for a full notice.

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