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Old 03-06-2006
raid 5 using solaris 9 LVM

if i want to create a raid 5 device on 3 disks I have, can I make multiple metadevices? all the example i see on the internet make use of the slice 2 placing the entire disk into the raid5 device.

what if i make 3 identical slices on each disk, and make 3 raid 5 metadevices? will that work?

Last edited by BG_JrAdmin; 03-06-2006 at 03:03 PM.. Reason: added
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Old 03-06-2006
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well, it would work, but the performance would be very very slow.... why don't you create one raid5 and make softpartitions on it?

e.g.:

# metainit d0 -r c0t1d0s0 c0t2d0s0 c0t3d0s0
# metainit d1 -p d0 1024m
# metainit d<number> -p <base-partition> <size>

see man metainit for more details

regards PRESSY
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