Mirror boot disk with soft partitions with SVM in Solaris 9
2007-12-25 1:51:00
and didn't see anything that seemed to address my exact issues, so here
I am. We've been investigating Solaris Volume Manager with Solaris 9
and have some questions. We currently use DiskSuite 4.2.1 to mirror our
boot disks on Solaris 8. The fact that SVM is integrated into the kernel
on Solaris 9 got us thinking. Here are some questions I would greatly
appreciate answers to:
1. Is it possible to have your boot disk partitions (/root, /var, swap)
be soft partitions and then mirror the soft partitions (so disk 1 you'd
have 3 soft p's and on disk 2 you'd have 3 soft p's and create the
mirror from them)?
2. What would the problems be with this? The major one we could foresee
is not being able to see your /root, /var and swap partitions in the
case of having to boot from the CD, but _if_ SVM is in the Solaris 9
kernel, wouldn't that solve that issue. Is this a problem? Are there
other issues/problems we're not thinking of?
3. Finally, is having your boot partitions be mirrored soft partitons a
supported configuration from Sun?
Thanks,
Bob Jones
bob.jones at usg.edu
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