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# 1  
Old 01-05-2010
Mirroring
Hi All

i wish to mirror the root disk, but i face the below error.

Code:
root@saturn # metainit d11 1 1 c0t0d0s0
metainit: saturn: c0t0d0s0: is mounted on /

kindly assist...
# 2  
Old 01-05-2010
please provide the steps you took from beginning.
use metainit -f d11 1 1 c0t0d0s0
Last edited by incredible; 01-05-2010 at 05:42 AM..
# 3  
Old 01-05-2010
oo.. its work
but after this i run this
Code:
root@saturn # metainit -f d12 1 1 c1t0d0s0
metainit: saturn: c1t0d0s0: overlaps with device in d11

Code:
root@saturn # iostat -Ei
sd6       Soft Errors: 3 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: TOSHIBA  Product: XM6201TASUN32XCD Revision: 1103 Device Id:
Size: 0.00GB <0 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 3 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
ssd8      Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: SEAGATE  Product: ST3146707FC      Revision: 0005 Device Id: id1,ssd@n20000014c3f46bc9
Size: 146.81GB <146811883520 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
ssd17     Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: SEAGATE  Product: ST3146707FC      Revision: 0003 Device Id: id1,ssd@n20000014c379e7c6
Size: 146.81GB <146811883520 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
ssd18     Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: SEAGATE  Product: ST3146707FC      Revision: 0005 Device Id: id1,ssd@n20000014c3f46bc9
Size: 146.81GB <146811883520 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
ssd19     Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: SEAGATE  Product: ST3146707FC      Revision: 0003 Device Id: id1,ssd@n20000014c379e7c6
Size: 146.81GB <146811883520 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
ssd20     Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: SEAGATE  Product: ST3146707FC      Revision: 0005 Device Id: id1,ssd@n20000014c3e082f5
Size: 146.81GB <146811883520 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
ssd21     Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: SEAGATE  Product: ST3146707FC      Revision: 0005 Device Id: id1,ssd@n20000014c3e082f5
Size: 146.81GB <146811883520 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
ssd22     Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: SEAGATE  Product: ST3146707FC      Revision: 0005 Device Id: id1,ssd@n20000014c3f3206a
Size: 146.81GB <146811883520 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
ssd23     Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: SEAGATE  Product: ST3146707FC      Revision: 0005 Device Id: id1,ssd@n20000014c3f3206a
Size: 146.81GB <146811883520 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0

# 4  
Old 01-05-2010
There's a very good book (online pdf) "Boot Disk Managment" published in the "Sun Blueprints" series which details step by step how to do this.

An excellent resource.
# 5  
Old 01-05-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by Celtic_Monkey
There's a very good book (online pdf) "Boot Disk Managment" published in the "Sun Blueprints" series which details step by step how to do this.

An excellent resource.

i read some page just now, really is a good book for help me in this case, thanks for sharing =)

but i had face the problem when run the second step
Code:
root@saturn # metainit -f d12 1 1 c1t0d0s0
metainit: saturn: c1t0d0s0: overlaps with device in d11

kindly advise =)

---------- Post updated at 05:27 PM ---------- Previous update was at 05:04 PM ----------

and i found that it is quite weird
the ID look like duplicate already
please help, me confuse already.. Smilie

0=4
1=5
2=6
3=7

Code:
root@saturn # format
Searching for disks...done


AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
       0. c0t0d0 <SEAGATE-ST3146707FC-0005 cyl 44304 alt 2 hd 8 sec 809>
          /sbus@2,0/SUNW,socal@1,0/sf@0,0/ssd@w21000014c3f46bc9,0
       1. c0t1d0 <SEAGATE-ST3146707FC-0005 cyl 44304 alt 2 hd 8 sec 809>
          /sbus@2,0/SUNW,socal@1,0/sf@0,0/ssd@w21000014c379e7c6,0
       2. c0t2d0 <SEAGATE-ST3146707FC-0005 cyl 44304 alt 2 hd 8 sec 809>
          /sbus@2,0/SUNW,socal@1,0/sf@0,0/ssd@w21000014c3f3206a,0
       3. c0t3d0 <SEAGATE-ST3146707FC-0005 cyl 44304 alt 2 hd 8 sec 809>
          /sbus@2,0/SUNW,socal@1,0/sf@0,0/ssd@w21000014c3e082f5,0
       4. c1t0d0 <SEAGATE-ST3146707FC-0005 cyl 44304 alt 2 hd 8 sec 809>
          /sbus@2,0/SUNW,socal@1,0/sf@1,0/ssd@w22000014c3f46bc9,0
       5. c1t1d0 <SEAGATE-ST3146707FC-0005 cyl 44304 alt 2 hd 8 sec 809>
          /sbus@2,0/SUNW,socal@1,0/sf@1,0/ssd@w22000014c379e7c6,0
       6. c1t2d0 <SEAGATE-ST3146707FC-0005 cyl 44304 alt 2 hd 8 sec 809>
          /sbus@2,0/SUNW,socal@1,0/sf@1,0/ssd@w22000014c3f3206a,0
       7. c1t3d0 <SEAGATE-ST3146707FC-0005 cyl 44304 alt 2 hd 8 sec 809>
          /sbus@2,0/SUNW,socal@1,0/sf@1,0/ssd@w22000014c3e082f5,0

# 6  
Old 01-05-2010
please provide metastat -p and metadb output
# 7  
Old 01-05-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by incredible
please provide metastat -p and metadb output
Code:
root@saturn # metastat -p
root@saturn # metadb
        flags           first blk       block count
     a m  pc luo        16              8192            /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7
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