Re: [osol-discuss] c0t0d0 versus c0t${blah}d0 ... and partitions and mirroring in solaris 11 express

2011-07-22 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: Peter Tribble [mailto:peter.trib...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 8:38 AM > > That often happens. It shouldn't matter. If the d0 node doesn't exist, > then > telling zfs to use it as a vdev will usually force it to be created. For the 2nd disk, that works. sudo ls -l /d

Re: [osol-discuss] c0t0d0 versus c0t${blah}d0 ... and partitions and mirroring in solaris 11 express

2011-07-22 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: Peter Tribble [mailto:peter.trib...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 8:38 AM > > > I installed s11e to a partition of a 2T drive.  Now I want to mirror it, so > > I want to replicate the fdisk partitions & partition slices onto the 2nd > > disk... Nothing I do inside of "format" se

Re: [osol-discuss] c0t0d0 versus c0t${blah}d0 ... and partitions and mirroring in solaris 11 express

2011-07-22 Thread Peter Tribble
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 1:15 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > Can anyone explain why this is, or needs to be? > > In some systems, disks are named c0t0d0 etc > > In some systems, they're named like this: c0t5000C5003424396Bd0 That's multipathing, usually by the name of MPXIO (or sometimes the old u

Re: [osol-discuss] c0t0d0 versus c0t${blah}d0 ... and partitions and mirroring in solaris 11 express

2011-07-22 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: Benoit [mailto:benoit.chaffan...@oracle.com] > Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 10:06 PM > > Multipathing I/O on Solaris is certainly an interesting topic ... > > A quick start : http://www.petertribble.co.uk/Solaris/mpxio.html > More at : http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+mpxio/We

Re: [osol-discuss] c0t0d0 versus c0t${blah}d0 ... and partitions and mirroring in solaris 11 express

2011-07-22 Thread Benoit
Multipathing I/O on Solaris is certainly an interesting topic ... A quick start : http://www.petertribble.co.uk/Solaris/mpxio.html More at : http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+mpxio/WebHome And the original documentation : http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E19957-01/819-0139/ Best re