On Apr 12, 2011, at 9:54 AM, Alexandre Chartre wrote: > When you export a physical disk slice, it appears in the guest domain as > a single-slice disk (format(1) shows "SUN-DiskSlice"). This is what you > see for c0d2 and c0d3. With a single-slice disk, you can only use slice 0 > (e.g. c0d2s0 and c0d3s0).
Right - which is what I am doing (using slice 0). (Petr, you can't use slice 1.) In the case of the 2 slices I am trying to export and then create a 2-vdisk ZFS mirrored zpool with, I am trying to do the exact same thing on both the old system as well as the new one. It works on the old system but not on the new system. > But if you export a volume (either ZFS or SVM) then, by default, it will > appear > as a full disk image (format(1) shows "SUN-DiskImage"). Right - which it does: > 3. c0d4 <SUN-DiskImage-99GB cyl 2842 alt 2 hd 96 sec 768> > /virtual-devices@100/channel-devices@200/disk@4 > 4. c0d5 <SUN-DiskImage-50GB cyl 1420 alt 2 hd 96 sec 768> > /virtual-devices@100/channel-devices@200/disk@5 > 5. c0d6 <SUN-DiskImage-29GB cyl 822 alt 2 hd 96 sec 768> > /virtual-devices@100/channel-devices@200/disk@6 > In that case, you can > use multiple partitions but you first have to create a partition table (with > format -> partition -> label). This is what you see for c0d4, c0d5, c0d6. > You currently get an error because no partition table was created so there's > no slice 0. Aha - well spotted. You are right, there is no slice 0. Now the question is - in "format", do I label it with an SMI or an EFI label??? > If you want to export a ZFS/SVM volume as a single-slice disk then you need > to use "option=slice" in the "ldm add-vdsdev" command. I think this what you > are trying to achieve here. Interesting. I don't get this part, however. I always thought "option=slice" was only for exporting slices! As we say in Latin, this seems like a non sequitur :) I want to export the SVM volumes as whole "disks". Given that they will be newfs'ed over the entire length of the disk, then yes - I can afford to create them as "single slice" (slice 0) disks. But having them show up as "SUN-DiskSlice" vdisks just doesn't seem "right" - after all they aren't "slices"! > Refer to the Admin Guide for more info, in particular: > > http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E19608-01/html/821-1485/virtualdiskappearance.html > http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E19608-01/html/821-1485/virtualdiskbackendoptions.html#sliceoption Thanks Alex. Do you have any ideas on why my export-as-2-slices-and-then-create-ZFS-zpool is failing? Thanks, - Greg _______________________________________________ ldoms-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ldoms-discuss
