Very Computer

I am replacing our exsisting solars ftp server with a new box running
solaris 2.8. This new box has 2x36G drives in it, And i have use disk
suite( the one off of the sol8 disks) to make my ftp partition bigger. I
noticed that in order to use metatool to configure the stripe, i have to
have the rpc services running and the metad and metahd in the inetd.conf
file. The ftp box that we currently have in the dmz is not running the rpc
services at all. My question is will it hurt me to have the rpc services
shut down, and the meatad and metahd services removed form the inetd.conf
file, after i have made the stripe? I did shut them down and rebooted the
box. When the box comes up I get no errors and i can see that my
/dev/md/dsk/d0 partition is mounted. It appears that i can access the mount
the logical partition and write data there. I am just not sure if errors
will arise.

Thanks....

You could set everything up via command line (metadb, metainit,
metattach...) without the RPC services.

The docs cover all the common tasks done via command line only.

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