Solaris

Hi All,

I have two disks which has been configured for RAID 1 Already.

I am adding more 6 disks in the system and I am configuring RAID 1 for all.

So in this case should , how should i create a metadb .

Thanks and Regards
Rj

Hello mate,
Please give us #metastat -p
..and tell me what disks you want to stripe across on what controllers..
ta

Hi ,
My metastat ouput is below

Code:

root@IPTOBIS-DB-UAT # metastat -p
d6 -m d16 d26 1
d16 1 1 c1t0d0s6
d26 1 1 c1t1d0s6
d5 -m d15 d25 1
d15 1 1 c1t0d0s5
d25 1 1 c1t1d0s5
d4 -m d14 d24 1
d14 1 1 c1t0d0s4
d24 1 1 c1t1d0s4
d3 -m d13 d23 1
d13 1 1 c1t0d0s3
d23 1 1 c1t1d0s3
d0 -m d10 d20 1
d10 1 1 c1t0d0s0
d20 1 1 c1t1d0s0
d1 -m d11 d21 1
d11 1 1 c1t0d0s1
d21 1 1 c1t1d0s1
d120 -r c1t2d0s5 c1t3d0s5 c1t4d0s5 c1t5d0s5 -k -i 16b
d7 -r c1t2d0s0 c1t3d0s0 c1t4d0s0 c1t5d0s0 -k -i 16b
d110 -r c1t2d0s4 c1t3d0s4 c1t4d0s4 c1t5d0s4 -k -i 16b
d8 -r c1t2d0s1 c1t3d0s1 c1t4d0s1 c1t5d0s1 -k -i 16b
d9 -r c1t2d0s3 c1t3d0s3 c1t4d0s3 c1t5d0s3 -k -i 16b

Here d6,d5,d4,d3,d1,d0 are currently under raid 1. I am removing RAID 5 alone which is on d8,9,7,110,120 and putting RAID 1 for this also.

So while creating Metadb for the new one. How should i create.

Thanks and Regards
Rj

what I understand from you post above is :

you have 4 more disks deployed as Raid 5, which you want now to be Raid 1 implemented.

For this -

- back up you data on Raid 5, on which ever disks/tape avilable
- delete your raid 5 volume by un-mouting it first : umount /raid5_vol ; metaclear raid5_vol

- with FORMAT utility, make metadb replicas - in your scenario, having two replicas on two slices of each disk, looks good, like below :

metadb -a -f -c2 /dev/rdsk/ctds ........../ctds........../ctds........... . . .

- make new raid 0 volume (stripe/concat) : metainit -f d10 1 1 <...........>
- Similar way, make raid 0 volumes, per ur requirement.
- then attach them to form a mirror.

I hope this helps .