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- From: jdc@coral.uucp (James D. Corder)
- Subject: Re: disk striping under sun OS 4.1.x or Solaris 2.1
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.120306.18708@coral.uucp>
- Organization: M.I.S. Department of Coral Systems
- References: <1993Jan27.120110.5577@alijku05.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 12:03:06 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan27.120110.5577@alijku05.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at> grabner@gup.uni-linz.ac.at writes:
- >is anybody out there who DID stripe a logical volume over more than one disk??
- >i intend to do this under solaris 2.1 (if possible). it would also be
- >interesting if it is possible under SUN OS 4.1.x. so any hints will be
- >appreciated.
- >
-
- I have striped two SUN1.3GB drives under 4.1.2 & 4.1.3. I have been
- told by Sun that "On Line Disk Suite" is not avaiable for Solrais 2.1 yet.
- I can not upgrade my 670 or NFS towers yet, without it.
-
- Some Hints:
-
- When creating your Meta Databases, have at least three on at least two
- different partitions. Therefore, if you loose a partition, you are not
- destroyed.
-
- WARNING!!!
-
- If you are going to run Disk Less Stations off of the striped partitions
- make sure you read that section of the On Line Disk Suite Manual FIRST!!!
-
- If you are goint to save some disk space so you can added to your
- stripes later, make sure your save a disk partition!!! This is nothing like
- adding PPs in AIX.
-
- If you are adding new drives I like to label my partitions as follows:
- sd1a & sd2a = md1a
- I try to have sd1a and sd2a the same size. Therefore, months later I will know
- which sd partitions is which md partition.
-
- Just my $.02,
- James D. Corder
- coral!jdc@zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu
-