On Dec 12, 2007 9:55 PM, Paul Kraus <pk1048 at gmail.com> wrote: > On 12/12/07, W. Wayne Liauh <wp at hawaiilinux.us> wrote: > > > I remember reading a post (by Dennis Clark) mentioning that it is > > a good idea to maintain a "meta" slice (something to that effect) > > in the Solaris partition. I couldn't find that tread. Could someone > > please enlighten us a little bit? Thanks a lot (& apologize if my > > question doesn't make much sense). > > I suspect what you are remembering is a reference to a slice > for a metadb replica. This is a location to store a copy of the > metadevice state database between reboots. If you are using Solaris > Volume Manager (used to be called Disk Suite) to mirror or otherwise > manage volumes you will need space for metadb replicas, but they do > not have to be on a dedicated slice, they can share a slice with other > another metadevice. > > I can't find the link to the "Best Practice" document on this, > perhaps another list member has it handy.
We had a discussion over on sysadmin-discuss a few months ago: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=39882&tstart=105 which also brought the following out into the open: http://wikis.sun.com/display/BigAdmin/BootDiskLayout -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
