Hello! I'm new to the world of Opensolaris and have just finished building my
Opensolaris server.
Because I decided on using a LSI SAS 9211-8i as my host bus adaptor, after
installing 2009.06 and configuring sone of my apps, I changed the repository to
Dev and upgraded everything to 134. I have everything pretty much set to how I
want it as far as a user experience goes, so now it's time to build my zraid!
Before the 9211-8i arrived, I was doing test installations and configurations
and kind of got used to how Opensolaris was defining the hard drive devices
(such as c8t0d0), and now I'm very confused as to how it's handing them on the
9211-8i. Here's the output from a format command:
xxxx at xxxxx:~# format
Searching for disks...done
c0t5000C5000E82665Fd0: configured with capacity of 931.51GB
c0t5000C500102B52ECd0: configured with capacity of 931.51GB
c0t5000C500103D4D70d0: configured with capacity of 931.51GB
AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
0. c0t5000C5000E824B5Bd0 <DEFAULT cyl 60798 alt 2 hd 255 sec 126>
/scsi_vhci/disk at g5000c5000e824b5b
1. c0t5000C5000E828AEAd0 <DEFAULT cyl 60798 alt 2 hd 255 sec 126>
/scsi_vhci/disk at g5000c5000e828aea
2. c0t5000C5000E82665Fd0 <ATA-ST31000340AS-SD15 cyl 953867 alt 2 hd 16
sec 128>
/scsi_vhci/disk at g5000c5000e82665f
3. c0t5000C5000E815934d0 <DEFAULT cyl 60798 alt 2 hd 255 sec 126>
/scsi_vhci/disk at g5000c5000e815934
4. c0t5000C500102B52ECd0 <ATA-ST31000340AS-SD15 cyl 953867 alt 2 hd 16
sec 128>
/scsi_vhci/disk at g5000c500102b52ec
5. c0t5000C500103D4D70d0 <ATA-ST31000340AS-SD15 cyl 953867 alt 2 hd 16
sec 128>
/scsi_vhci/disk at g5000c500103d4d70
6. c0t5000C50010089AD0d0 <DEFAULT cyl 60798 alt 2 hd 255 sec 126>
/scsi_vhci/disk at g5000c50010089ad0
7. c0t5000C50010253F0Ad0 <DEFAULT cyl 60798 alt 2 hd 255 sec 126>
/scsi_vhci/disk at g5000c50010253f0a
8. c8t0d0 <DEFAULT cyl 9036 alt 2 hd 255 sec 63>
/pci at 0,0/pci1043,8383 at 1f,2/disk at 0,0
As you can see, there's 9 hard drives in total. Drive #8 is connected to the
motherboard controller rather than the 9211-8i and is my boot drive, and has a
"normal" device name. What's with those crazy long names? Is there any way to
give them friendlier or more useful names?
Also, should I be partitoning and formatting these before adding them to the
zpool? What's the best practice here?
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