On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Nils Goroll <slink at schokola.de> wrote: > Hi Binu, > >> I suppose if you start creating metadevices/volumes on the metaset >> there will be trouble. You are essentially bypassing the SVM layer >> by accessing a component disk directly. What SVM would put where >> on each disk cannot predicted by UFS (on the individual disk). > > I do absolutely agree. This was someone else's configuration and I only > wanted to check if anyone could come up with any reason why one would want > to use this strange configuration.
Mmm.. I can hazard a guess. Maybe whoever did this is under the impression that to access a did device (disk) on either node an import/export is needed. The easiest way is to make that happen is by making the disk part of a diskset and not use the the diskset but only the disk. cheers Binu