DiskSuite concatenation problem

From: Olive Buggy (obuggy_at_rssd.esa.int)
Date: 01/29/04

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    Dear All,

    I seem to be in serious trouble with disksuite. I had to reinstall Solaris on an
    Ultra 2 system, which is running disksuite 4.2. Before reinstallation, I backed
    up all the Disksuite relevant configuration files, output of metastat commands
    etc. With the intention of after OS install I would re-install the disksuite
    packages, and reload the md.cf. However I have lost this backup !!!

    Basically the SDS configuration was one big concatenated metadevice (containing
    6 disks). Luckily SDS has nothing to do with the root disk etc.

    I have no idea where the state databases were located. I am unable to mount the
    raw device of these disks, probably because they are part of a concatenation

    mount /dev/dsk/c0t9d0s2 /mnt
    mount: /dev/dsk/c0t9d0s2 is not this fstype.

    I then thought that I would simply set up a state database and the concatenation
    again. However, the manual seems to warn that this could cause dataloss. It
    explains how to expand a concatenation with existing data, but seems to suggest
    the this would wipe the second disk.

    If anyone could point me in the right direction I would be very grateful.

    Thank you in advance,

    Best Regards.

    Olive
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