I received a ton of replies. Many thanks to everyone. The consensus was that Yes, this mirroring will work as long as submirror 2 is slightly larger. And it did work flawlessly. The only caveat is that if I lose submirror 1 (the smaller disk), I'll probably need another 18GB drive to restore the mirror pair. I'm cool with that because we have a bunch of 18GB spares here doing nothing. Thanks gang and cheers. Daryl # /usr/opt/SUNWmd/sbin/metastat d0: Mirror Submirror 0: d10 State: Okay Submirror 1: d20 State: Okay Pass: 1 Read option: roundrobin (default) Write option: parallel (default) Size: 5084856 blocks d10: Submirror of d0 State: Okay Size: 5084856 blocks Stripe 0: Device Start Block Dbase State Hot Spare c0t0d0s0 0 No Okay d20: Submirror of d0 State: Okay Size: 5088960 blocks Stripe 0: Device Start Block Dbase State Hot Spare c0t2d0s0 0 No Okay d1: Mirror Submirror 0: d11 State: Okay Submirror 1: d21 State: Okay Pass: 1 Read option: roundrobin (default) Write option: parallel (default) Size: 4194288 blocks d11: Submirror of d1 State: Okay Size: 4194288 blocks Stripe 0: Device Start Block Dbase State Hot Spare c0t0d0s1 0 No Okay d21: Submirror of d1 State: Okay Size: 4198392 blocks Stripe 0: Device Start Block Dbase State Hot Spare c0t2d0s1 0 No Okay d3: Mirror Submirror 0: d13 State: Okay Submirror 1: d23 State: Okay Pass: 1 Read option: roundrobin (default) Write option: parallel (default) Size: 4197879 blocks d13: Submirror of d3 State: Okay Size: 4197879 blocks Stripe 0: Device Start Block Dbase State Hot Spare c0t0d0s3 0 No Okay d23: Submirror of d3 State: Okay Size: 4198392 blocks Stripe 0: Device Start Block Dbase State Hot Spare c0t2d0s3 0 No Okay d4: Mirror Submirror 0: d14 State: Okay Submirror 1: d24 State: Okay Pass: 1 Read option: roundrobin (default) Write option: parallel (default) Size: 4197879 blocks d14: Submirror of d4 State: Okay Size: 4197879 blocks Stripe 0: Device Start Block Dbase State Hot Spare c0t0d0s4 0 No Okay d24: Submirror of d4 State: Okay Size: 4198392 blocks Stripe 0: Device Start Block Dbase State Hot Spare c0t2d0s4 0 No Okay Daryl A Mitchell/User/O-I To 07/29/2005 08:59 sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org AM cc Subject mirror 2 different geometry disks? I have a 9gb and an 18gb drive in one of my E10K's D1000. I'd like to disksuite them up for a more fault tolerant boot pair. The 9gb drive is my current boot drive. But when I try to fmthard the 18gb drive, it complains that the sector ends not at the cylinder end or something. So I got it partitioned as close as I could manually. Can I mirror these up with disksuite still even though the geometries are not exactly alike? I've made the new disk partitions slightly bigger than the original. D CURRENT BOOT DISK: Total disk cylinders available: 4924 + 2 (reserved cylinders) Part Tag Flag Cylinders Size Blocks 0 root wm 0 - 1415 2.42GB (1416/0/0) 5084856 1 swap wu 1416 - 2583 2.00GB (1168/0/0) 4194288 2 backup wm 0 - 4923 8.43GB (4924/0/0) 17682084 3 var wm 2584 - 3752 2.00GB (1169/0/0) 4197879 4 unassigned wm 3753 - 4921 2.00GB (1169/0/0) 4197879 5 unassigned wm 4922 - 4922 1.75MB (1/0/0) 3591 6 unassigned wm 4923 - 4923 1.75MB (1/0/0) 3591 7 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0 I'D LIKE TO MIRROR TO THIS NEW 18GB DRIVE: Total disk cylinders available: 7506 + 2 (reserved cylinders) Part Tag Flag Cylinders Size Blocks 0 root wm 0 - 1079 2.43GB (1080/0/0) 5088960 1 swap wu 1080 - 1970 2.00GB (891/0/0) 4198392 2 backup wm 0 - 7505 16.86GB (7506/0/0) 35368272 3 var wm 1971 - 2861 2.00GB (891/0/0) 4198392 4 unassigned wm 2862 - 3752 2.00GB (891/0/0) 4198392 5 unassigned wm 3753 - 3753 2.30MB (1/0/0) 4712 6 unassigned wm 3754 - 3754 2.30MB (1/0/0) 4712 7 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0 _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Mon Aug 1 11:31:15 2005
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