Paul Kraus wrote: > I am looking for a programatic way to determine which disk devices are > currently used and which are unused by any metadevices or metasets. > > The metadevices are fairly easy, just parse the output of metstat -p > for the used devices. > > Unfortunately, metaset only provides device names for devices > currently owned by the host. The presence of other metasets and their > owners is indicated, but not which devices they they contain. > > I have thought about trying to rsh into the other hosts and grab the > output from metaset there, but I figured there *had* to be a better > way. > > The reason I want this information, is that I am working on a script > to automate the creation of non-global Zones in our environment. I > want to be able to automate the creation of metasets and metadevices > as needed by the Zone as well. > > Thanks. > The best way to do this is via libdiskmgt. It covers not only the devices used by SVM but also all other possible combinations like, ZFS, swap and dump devices.
-Sanjay
