SUMMARY: Growing a metadevice live
From: Colin Bigam (colin_at_ccsisupport.com)
Date: 11/17/05
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Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 08:49:41 -0700 (MST) To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
Hurrah for the list! The problem is solved.
Originally I had asked how to grow a SVM mirror when the underlying slices
themselves had grown.
Several people suggested (quite rightly) that the normal way to do this is
to add the extra space as new slices, rather than expanding the slices in
the format command. Soft partitions were also suggested for possible use in
the future; a good idea, but not workable in this particular situation.
However, Darren Dunham and Dan Astooria both came up with the winning trick
to doing this live. Once the subdisks have been detached, destroyed,
recreated, and reattached; you can use 'metattach d6' (where d6 is the
mirror metadevice) with no further options, and it will grow to the size
of the smallest subdisk. After this, growfs will of course do its thing.
Thanks all!
Colin
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On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 17:36:47 EST, "Colin Bigam" writes:
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> The slices that comprise both d16 and d26 were 29GB but have been expanded
to 39GB each. The metadevices still show 29GB. The only way I know of fixing
this is to break the mirror, delete and recreate the detached metadevice
(say d26), reattach and resync it, detach the other metadevice (d16),
With you so far.
You would delete and recreate d16 next, of course.
> unmount the filesystem, destroy and recreate the mirror (d6),
You shouldn't need to do this.
Instead, you should be able to metattach d16 to d6 again and let them resync.
At that point, you will have two 39GB submirrors, but the mirror d6 will still
be 29GB. If you then run "metattach d6" with no additional
arguments, SVM will grow the mirror to the size of the smallest attached
submirror.
Once that's been done, you should be able to growfs the filesystem.
Good luck,
Dan Astoorian
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