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# 1  
Old 03-07-2009
How to set the rootmirror
Hi experts,

I have to do disk mirroring, for that i created the required volumes with SVM and attached both the disk.

However i am not sure as how to enable the rootmirror.

Please help !

Thanks
# 2  
Old 03-07-2009
what is the output of "metastat"?
# 3  
Old 03-07-2009
Hi Duke

Please find the output from metastat

Quote:
d0: Mirror

Submirror 0: d10

State: Okay

Submirror 1: d20

State: Okay

Pass: 1

Read option: roundrobin (default)

Write option: parallel (default)

Size: 12362400 blocks ( 5.9 GB)


d10: Submirror of d0

State: Okay

Size: 12362400 blocks ( 5.9 GB)
Stripe 0:

Device Start Block Dbase State Reloc Hot Spare

c0t0d0s0 0 No Okay yes


d20: Submirror of d0

State: Okay

Size: 12362400 blocks ( 5.9 GB)
Stripe 0:

Device Start Block Dbase State Reloc Hot Spare
c0t2d0s0 0 No Okay Yes

d1: Mirror

Submirror 0: d11

State: Okay

Submirror 1: d21

State: Okay

Pass: 1

Read option: roundrobin (default)

Write option: parallel (default)

Size: 1056720 blocks ( 515 MB)


d11: Submirror of d11

State: Okay

Size: 1056720 blocks ( 515 MB)
Stripe 0:

Device Start Block Dbase State Reloc Hot Spare

c0t0d0s1 0 No Okay yes


d21: Submirror of d0

State: Okay

Size: 1056720 blocks ( 515 MB)
Stripe 0:

Device Start Block Dbase State Reloc Hot Spare
c0t2d0s1 0 No Okay Yes

Device Relocation Information:
Device Reloc Device ID
c0t2d0 Yes id1,dad@awdc_WD800BB-00JHC0=______WD-WMAM9CJA4976
c0t0d0 Yes id1,dad@AST380215A=________________6RX7FWXW
i can boot from the mirror disk by by giving device path at the OK prompt with boot command, however i wanna set the same in rootmirror.

Thanks again
# 4  
Old 03-07-2009
i don't understand your problem...? everything seems to be fine.
# 5  
Old 03-07-2009
Thanks Duke

True every thing is okay and its working fine.

I want to set the rootmirror path eeprom so i in case if its require i an boot from mirror disk.
# 6  
Old 03-07-2009
so just do it... go to obp and use:

nvalias rootmirror /path/to/your/disk (get the path with "show-disks")
setenv bootdevice rootdisk rootmirror

thats all...
# 7  
Old 03-07-2009
Thanks Duke !
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