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Hi I'm new Solaris.
I'm trying to understand how a root device is being mirrored. When do df -k I get this:

Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/md/dsk/d0 49915840 43168158 6248524 88% /
/proc 0 0 0 0% /proc
fd 0 0 0 0% /dev/fd
mnttab 0 0 0 0% /etc/mnttab
/dev/md/dsk/d3 8263373 5813462 2367278 72% /var
swap 8287328 16 8287312 1% /var/run
swap 8287760 448 8287312 1% /tmp


As you can see my root file system is pointing to /dev/md/dsk/d0 and I think this is a mirror device (to /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0).

My question is, how do I know/find out that /dev/md/dsk/d0 is mirror to /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0?

I'm using Solaris 8

any help will be appreciated.

Thanks
ND

There is nothing suggesting that it is a mirror device to c0t0d0s0 - you need to use the metastat command or look at the config files to find out what mirrors are involved.


/usr/sbin/metastat (see the man page for options)