SUMMARY: creating mirrored soft partitions

First I wanted to thank all of you for your replies. I wanted to thank James
Ray for his detailed explanation that I used. 

James said:

> You have to create the mirror first and then overlay the soft 
> partition onto it.
> 
> So if d1 and d2 are your sub-mirrors you create d0 as your mirrored 
> device and then create d3 as a soft partition on d0.
> 
> Something like this:
> 	bash-3.00# metainit -f d1 1 1 c1t0d0s6
> 	d1: Concat/Stripe is setup
> 	bash-3.00# metainit d2 1 1 c1t1d0s6
> 	d2: Concat/Stripe is setup
> 	bash-3.00# metainit d0 -m d1
> 	d0: Mirror is setup
> 	bash-3.00# metattach d0 d2
> 	d0: d2 is attached
> 	bash-3.00# metainit d3 -p d0 5g
> 	d3: Soft Partition is setup
> 	bash-3.00# metainit d4 -p d0 5g
> 	d4: Soft Partition is setup
> 	bash-3.00# newfs /dev/md/dsk/d3
> 	bash-3.00# newfs /dev/md/dsk/d4
> 
> By the way its known as Solaris Volume Manager in Solaris 10 rather 
> tna Solstice Disk Suite. This URL may help also: 
> http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-4520?q=soft+partition



Thank you again !
--
Brent -

---------- Original Message -----------
From: James Ray <j.ray@qmul.ac.uk>
To: Brent <mrb@bmyster.com>
Sent: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 13:54:34 +0100
Subject: Re: creating mirrored soft partitions

> Brent wrote:
> > Hello,
> > Im working on a solaris 10 box using Solstice Disk Suite. I am creating zones
> > on this new box but first im creating a 4gig soft partition on a disk to put
> > the zone on. My question is ...Is it possible to create a soft partition then
> > create a raid 1 mirror of it to another disk ?
> > 
> >
> 
> You have to create the mirror first and then overlay the soft 
> partition onto it.
> 
> So if d1 and d2 are your sub-mirrors you create d0 as your mirrored 
> device and then create d3 as a soft partition on d0.
> 
> Something like this:
> 	bash-3.00# metainit -f d1 1 1 c1t0d0s6
> 	d1: Concat/Stripe is setup
> 	bash-3.00# metainit d2 1 1 c1t1d0s6
> 	d2: Concat/Stripe is setup
> 	bash-3.00# metainit d0 -m d1
> 	d0: Mirror is setup
> 	bash-3.00# metattach d0 d2
> 	d0: d2 is attached
> 	bash-3.00# metainit d3 -p d0 5g
> 	d3: Soft Partition is setup
> 	bash-3.00# metainit d4 -p d0 5g
> 	d4: Soft Partition is setup
> 	bash-3.00# newfs /dev/md/dsk/d3
> 	bash-3.00# newfs /dev/md/dsk/d4
> 
> By the way its known as Solaris Volume Manager in Solaris 10 rather 
> tna Solstice Disk Suite. This URL may help also: 
> http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-4520?q=soft+partition
> 
> Please summarise to the list.
> 
> -- 
> James Ray.                          <j.ray@qmul.ac.uk>
> Computing Services
> Queen Mary, University of London
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