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Data and Technology

Posted on December 21st, 2005

Written by cliff

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boot, cdrom, controller, device, device links, device pointer, device tree, disk, disk slice, disks, HowTo, mirroring, mount, partition, slot, solaris, storage, sun

Rebuilding the Solaris Device Tree

If you ever shift around any bootable drives within a Sun Solaris box, you may find that either the device names (cxtxd0sx) do not follow the disk position within the server, or, the system just fails to boot because it can’t mount the other disk slices. Let’s assume you are booting off of target 8 [...]
Data and Technology

Posted on September 28th, 2005

Written by cliff

Tags
concatenate, data, disk, disks, mirror, mirroring, raid, raid 0, raid 1, raid 10, storage, stripe, striped, striping, systems administration, technology

What The Heck is RAID 10?

Earlier this month, a company came along and asked for a RAID 10 array. Understanding that RAID 10 is a cooler sounding way of saying RAID 1+0, I understood it as a mirror set that is striped across another mirror set. Simple enough… Just concatenate a couple of mirrors, and you’ve got RAID 10. Indeed, [...]