I don't know if anyone practices the old ways anymore, but it used to be common practice to upgrade to a bigger disk by doing a dump 0f - <oldpart> | (cd <new part mount>; restore xf -)
Since about Solaris 10, this appears not to work for some reason. This discussion was the closest I could come to anyone else having this problem: http://unix.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.unix.solaris/2005-12/msg02005.html These people thought they were having a problem with the volume manager, but I had the exact same symptoms with UFS. I noticed an abort, too, at the end of the restore. It turned out that the md5 driver file was actually missing (their symptom, too) from the restore. When this module is missing, solaris will eventually panic. On further examination, I found that a ufsdump to a file, followed by a restore from the file works fine on opensolaris (solaris 11). (BTW, kudos to Sun on opening up solaris source. Now, if only they will open up the glm scsi driver and ffb/afb drivers.... I have a build of opensolaris--its easy, and the backup commands source is provided, so someone could try to look into this. Fixing this is not a high priority for me at present, so if anyone decides to look into it, let me know. I have some hunches as to what it could be. Someone who still has a newsfeed and would kindly repost this to comp.unix.solaris is appreciated. Thanks, --Dean -- Av8 Internet Prepared to pay a premium for better service? www.av8.net faster, more reliable, better service 617 344 9000 _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
