SUMMARY: Growing Mirror set on soft partitions

From: Scott Pham (scott_at_securityx.net)
Date: 07/30/04

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    Thanks to all those that replied. We came up with our own solution that
    did not require us to recontruct the metadevices.

    Create 2 new soft partitions
    metattach new soft partitions to submirrors (creating a strip set)
    growfs the mirror.

    > Hello Sun Gurus,
    >
    > I currently have a problem I can't seem to google/find in the archives. I
    > need to grow a mirror set d66. This set is currently sitting on 2
    > concatenated devices, which sit on 2 soft partitions. I know I need to
    > grow the soft partitions, but everything I've read in Sun Docs, says I
    > can't do this if I've created another device from the soft partitions. Is
    > it possible to create a soft mirror(Mirror in Volumn Manager) and then
    > create soft partitions on top of that mirror set, or does the mirror need
    > to be a hardware based mirror. Any help would be great. I've included the
    > dump from metastat d66 at the bottom.
    >
    > d66: Mirror
    > Submirror 0: d16
    > State: Okay
    > Submirror 1: d26
    > State: Okay
    > Pass: 1
    > Read option: roundrobin (default)
    > Write option: parallel (default)
    > Size: 20962560 blocks (10.0 GB)
    >
    > d16: Submirror of d66
    > State: Okay
    > Size: 20962560 blocks (10.0 GB)
    > Stripe 0:
    > Device Start Block Dbase State Reloc Hot Spare
    > d86 0 No Okay No
    >
    > d86: Soft Partition
    > Device: c1t0d0s6
    > State: Okay
    > Size: 20971520 blocks (10 GB)
    > Device Start Block Dbase Reloc
    > c1t0d0s6 0 No Yes
    >
    > Extent Start Block Block count
    > 0 9961479 20971520
    >
    >
    > d26: Submirror of d66
    > State: Okay
    > Size: 20962560 blocks (10.0 GB)
    > Stripe 0:
    > Device Start Block Dbase State Reloc Hot Spare
    > d76 0 No Okay No
    >
    > d76: Soft Partition
    > Device: c1t1d0s6
    > State: Okay
    > Size: 20971520 blocks (10 GB)
    > Device Start Block Dbase Reloc
    > c1t1d0s6 0 No Yes
    >
    > Extent Start Block Block count
    > 0 9961479 20971520
    >
    > --Scott
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