Thank you for your answer!
Do I get this rigth?: I have to first setup one striped metadevice of
two slices on each disk, then setup the mirroring and then create my
filesystems (/, swap, /opt, /usr, etc.) on the metadevices?
Chris
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> If your intention is to mirror the whole disk . you need not do slice
> mirroring. Create two striped metadevices for each of your 4.2 GB
> disks.
> Then combine the two to make a mirror metadevice. Using metatool gives
> you a nice gui to accomplish things. But since you are mirroring a
> root
> file system . you need to create a metadevice for c0t0d0 and reboot
> the
> system and then mirror it the second metadevice. Make sure you have
> three slices to hold the 3 replicas of the metadatabase DiskSuite
> needs.
> > I am having a Sun Ultra 2 with Solaris 2.5.1 and Disksuite 4.0.
> > Further
> > we have an internal 4.2G SCSI harddisk and another external 4.2G
> SCSI
> > harddisk which is connected to the second controller.
> > On c0t0d0 I have an ordinary system with /, swap, overlap, /var,
> > /opt,
> > /usr, and /home slices installed.
> > Now, I`d like to mirror the whole disk to the second one (c1t2d0),
> > with
> > the goal to increase availability in case of damage of one of the
> disk
> > or controllers.
> > I read the answerbooks an man-pages, and am a little confused now.
> > Ist it possible to do what I want?
> > What metadevices would have to be created?
> > It seems to me that Disksuite does`nt accept raw slices for
> mirroring.
> > Can anyone help me out?
> > Thanx a lot in advance
> > Chris
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