Back from vacations! So, to answer Darren:
Dangerous because I destroyed one file system because of this :)! Well, with the help of Veritas support in Germany we were able to restore the other part of the concat and thus restore the file system intact. Perhaps mixing the id's is a feature that occurs with EVA. When I move a disk between servers the id doesn't necessarily stay the same. Moreover if I present a new disk to the server it might go over the id of the "move disk". Sometimes this causes VVM to recognize the disk as "already initialized" and at times it's even unable to put the disk to a new disk group; it can only be used as a backup disk for some other disk. This requires quite a lot of fiddling (offline, rm, online, scandisks and whatnot) to get everything right. If I go on with the temp disk plan when resizing disks, any idea how big the temp disk must be? At least privlen? -j- -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darren Dunham Sent: jueves, 29 de marzo de 2007 19:03 To: Veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-vx] resizing a device > Actually my first live-and-learn experience with VVM was due to moving a > disk back and forth between servers (fast, easy and dangerous way to > move 4T of data); Why dangerous? Deporting/importing disks to migrate data is a pretty normal thing. > the id's got mixed, VVM reported "already initialized" > for all new devices etc. so I experimentally mkfs'ed the real device > instead of vx device. Result: Disaster in a file system that consisted > of two concatenated disks. Deceivingly it worked fine for two weeks > until vxconfigd restarted probably upon VEA installation. "the id's got mixed" just shouldn't happen. I realize it's not part of your current issue, but I would be interested to understand more about what happened in this case. > Thus, I'm looking for a way to resize a file system without too much > hassle with temporary disks. You have chosen to set up your system in a way that few others appear to use: a diskgroup on a single LUN that you plan to resize. The FS and volume resize are trivial. Your issue is that dynamic lun resize appears to require multiple disks within the diskgroup to work. The only ways I know of around that issue are even more fiddly than using a temporary disk. (If you scripted it, the temp disk thing shouldn't be much of a hassle, but you would have to maintain it). -- Darren Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Technical Consultant TAOS http://www.taos.com/ Got some Dr Pepper? San Francisco, CA bay area < This line left intentionally blank to confuse you. > _______________________________________________ Veritas-vx maillist - Veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-vx __________________________________________________________________________ La informacion incluida en el presente correo electronico es CONFIDENCIAL, siendo para el uso exclusivo del/os destinatario/s arriba mencionado/s. Si usted recibe y lee este correo electronico y no es el destinatario senalado, el empleado o el agente responsable de entregar el mensaje al destinatario, o ha recibido esta comunicacion por error, le informamos que esta totalmente prohibida cualquier divulgacion, distribucion, uso o reproduccion del mismo, y le rogamos que nos lo notifique inmediatamente respondiendo al mensaje original a la direccion arriba mencionada y eliminando el mensaje a continuacion. The information contained in this e-mail is CONFIDENTIAL and is intended only for the use of the addressee named above.If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or the employee or agent responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, or you have received this communication in error, please be aware that any diffusion, distribution or duplication of this communication is strictly forbidden, and please notify us immediately by return to the original message at the address above eliminating it afterwards. _______________________________________________ Veritas-vx maillist - Veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-vx
