Thanks to Darren for this explanation. I was indeed trying to mount/copy from the slice itself. I should have broken the mirror but copied from the detached metadevice instead of the underlying slice. > What specifically were you trying to mount? The concat/stripe > metadevice or the slice itself? From your description, there's no > reason that you should have had an issue with mounting the metadevice. >> - I got an error about a bad superblock > I would expect that if you tried to mount the slice directly. Because > the presence of the old replica meant that the metadevice was created at > an offset from the beginning of the slice. > (ans using the alternate superblocks did not help me either). Is there > anything I should have done differently to not hose the partition by > removing the metadb? > I would need to see more specific information about what was done. Just > removing the replica should have no effect on other data immediately. > Of course if you later deleted the replica, you couldn't recreate it in > the same location if the replica were gone. It would create it with no > offset from the beginning of the slice. That's one reason that mixing > replicas and metadevices on a slice isn't recommended. _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Fri May 5 13:49:23 2006
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