After some more testing and checking, looks like there HAVE to be 3 separate
copies on 3 separate disks to keep things going. You can put 2 copies on 1
disk, but if that disk is lost, the whole things disappears.
Additional info: this is an E3500 w/FCAL disks running Solaris 7 & Disk Suite
4.2.
Thanks to:
dana
stafforj
sadkins
reloftin
add
zhou
mark sherman
jbking
metthew stier
srothenb
> Sun Mgrs -
>
> I'm trying to set up a 2 disk mirror using disk suite. The disks get
> hung up during testing when I pull out a drive (simulated power
> failure). This is because there are not 50% + 1 copies of the meta db
> available. Is there any way to disable this quorum requirement? Or do I
> have to have 3 disks available?
>
> Tried putting 2 copies of MetaDB on each disk, doesn't work. Works like
> a champ with the 3rd disk, but I REALLY don't need 3 mirrors of the
> data.
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> Bill
>
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