yes, it is very dangerous, because the cylinder 0 contains the MBR and VTOC, that's why you should never use the first cylinder. on x86/x64 platforms it's saved by the slice 8.
2009/7/2 Narain <[email protected]> > Hi, > > Recently we had a booting issue on a system which had the root filesystem > mirrored with SVM on S10u4. We could never boot the system once we detached > one end of the mirror from svm. Later after investigation it was found that > the slice dedicated for metadb in svm was starting at cylinder 0. We > remodified the partition table and reinstalled the os and everything went > fine. Until we detached the root mirrors we never had any issues with that > systems. > > So my question is, is it dangerous to have the metadb slice to start at > cylinder 0? > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > -- - LPIC-1 - SCSAS - Solaris System Administrator Part I
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