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We recently got a third party in to upgrade our solaris 8 sparc server to solaris 10.
A few month later I now have a disk mirror problem that I would normally fix by going into the GUI screen "metatool"
It appears that the third party didn't install disksuite after the upgrade. Does anyone know where I can download disksuite for solaris 10?

Thanks
Mark

I'm not sure what metatool does. I checked on a couple of servers, but it wasn't in the standard path. Perhaps you would like to explain what the problem is? Maybe someone here could give you a command-line solution.

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I don't think metatool is part of Solaris 10. This list might help.

Sorry for the long winded details, but I'd imagine the more details the better!

Below is a section of the output from metastat -t
What basically seems to have happened is that the mirror has got itself confused as it needs repairing. looking at the iostat -En command, the hard disk do not show any errors. I haven't got any spare slices to move the damaged slice to as suggested with the metareplace command provided in the metastat output so I need to break the mirror, remove the mirror, then recreate it again so it starts to sync.
I have done this in the past but only via a gui screen and not through the text commands although I know it is possible.

Any help / guidance would be appreciated.


d27: Mirror
Submirror 0: d28
State: Needs maintenance Mon Sep 24 10:38:00 2007
Submirror 1: d29
State: Okay Mon Oct 28 16:36:45 2002
Pass: 1
Read option: roundrobin (default)
Write option: parallel (default)
Size: 12581595 blocks (6.0 GB)

d28: Submirror of d27
State: Needs maintenance Mon Sep 24 10:38:00 2007
Invoke: metareplace d27 c1t8d0s4 <new device>
Size: 12581595 blocks (6.0 GB)
Stripe 0: (interlace: 32 blocks)
Device Start Dbase State Reloc Hot Spare Time
c1t1d0s4 0 No Okay Yes Mon Oct 28 15:47:00 2002
c1t2d0s4 0 No Okay Yes Mon Oct 28 15:47:00 2002
c1t8d0s4 0 No Maintenance Yes Mon Sep 24 10:38:00 2007


d29: Submirror of d27
State: Okay Mon Oct 28 16:36:45 2002
Size: 12581595 blocks (6.0 GB)
Stripe 0: (interlace: 32 blocks)
Device Start Dbase State Reloc Hot Spare Time
c1t4d0s4 0 No Okay Yes Mon Oct 28 15:47:37 2002
c1t5d0s4 0 No Okay Yes Mon Oct 28 15:47:37 2002
c1t11d0s4 0 No Okay Yes Mon Oct 28 15:47:37 2002

For your example:

Code:

metadetach d28 d27 # this will detach the mirror
metattach d27 d28 # this will attach the mirror

If there aren't any hardware errors (and you have said that there aren't), this should fix the problem.

Thank you.

Detaching didn't work due to the following error:
attempt an operation on a submirror that has erred components.

Do you know where I can download disksuite from for Solaris 10?

Apparently disksuite was a Solaris 8 tool which has been replaced by Solaris Volume Manager.
How do I run volume manager?

Thanks
Mark