So you have used SVM to mirror your disk, and one of the two drives fails. Aren’t you glad you mirrored them! You don’t have to do a restore from tape, but you are going have to replace the failed drive. Many modern RAID arrays just require you to take out the bad drive and [...]
Kids… DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME! If this is not done exactly right, you will render your system unbootable and corrupt your data. That being said, under some circumstances you can take some space from your swap partition and add it to an unused one without initializing your entire disk. This is particularly useful [...]
UPDATE TO “Solaris Disk Partition Layout & Mirroring Scripts“ Several Months ago, I tried to use my old mirroring scripts on a new Solaris 9 install. I found that the the kernel would panic upon reboot because it was unable to mount /. I tried many things, including opening a support call with Sun. They [...]
