On 8/15/06, Jerry Jelinek <Gerald.Jelinek at sun.com> wrote:
> I am not sure why you are seeing an error. However, in S10 the
> SVM configuration was changed. There is no longer any configuration
> file that has to be modified to increase the default limits. In S10
> the SVM devices are dynamically created. In releases prior to S10 the
> defaults were set in /kernel/drv/md.conf. In all releases there is a
> built-in limit of 32 metasets and 8192 metadevices per metaset. This is
> based on the device minor number which is sub-divided into 5 bits for
> the metaset number and 13 bits for the metadevice number.
So it sounds like the limitation of 32 metasets and 8192
devices per metaset is hard limitation and cannot be tuned higher.
What is the recommended way to manage SAN based storage across
mulitple servers and zones ? We are going to have more than 32 zones
on a set of servers that are sharing storage.
--
Paul Kraus
