[pca] veritas encapsulated root disks

[dima.kazhdan at ca.pwc.com]

Hi Dago
The problem with vmksdpart  would be that it can only create a limited # 
of partitions.
I happen to have up to 20 volumes on the root disk.


Same with the live upgrade ...
it would be puting the content of the volumes on the / partition which 
eventually will fill it up.








Dagobert Michelsen <dam at blastwave.org> 
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Hi Dima,

Am 16.06.2008 um 15:19 schrieb dima.kazhdan at ca.pwc.com:
> By un-encapsulated volumes I mean the volumes not created as a 
> result of root disk encapsulation.
> For example your root disk initially has 2 native partitions, say / 
> and /var.
> After root disk encapsulation u end up having 2 volumes, rootvol 
> and var.
>
> Now one starts creating additional volumes on the same disk. Then 
> the disk gets mirrored.
>
> So when the disk gets unencapsulated in orther to have an 
> alternative root disk as a backup copy, u end up having 2 
> partitions / and /var again but other volumes are obviously gone.

You can use vmksdpart from the Sun Blueprint to make
slices for the volumes. These can than be mounted
directly when you boot without Veritas.

> So my question is what would be the best strategy to recover from a 
> failed patch by booting from the alternative mirror?
>
> Also i'm not sure what u mean by saying "the need for encapsulated 
> root has vanished."?

In ancient versions of the Veritas Volume Manager you
must have had a rootdg, either as encapsulated boot
disk, extra disk or as a rootdg-on-a-slice. This need
has gone away somewhere around version 3.5 IIRC. You
no longer need a rootdg.

> How can one mirror an unencapsulated disk?

With SVM ;-) And BTW: I would recommend liveupgrade
instead of split-mirror if your disk is large enough.


Kind regards

   -- Dago




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