Re: [Veritas-vx] encapsulation requires a reboot - why?

2008-03-02 Thread Asim Zuberi
Hi Rajiv / Ron -- Thanks for your responses and your assistance in explaining me the concepts of reboot required for encapsulation. Rajiv -- Actually, I've tried your proposed suggestion already. I used a non-root-disk to encapsulate by using /etc/vx/bin/vxencap command. The command ran

Re: [Veritas-vx] encapsulation requires a reboot - why?

2008-03-02 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 12:25:26PM -0600, Asim Zuberi wrote: The reason I am enquiring the details of the encapsulation process is because of capturing Solaris Zones under VxVM control. To make Solaris Zones part of VxVM every time a zone is created, making it impossible to reboot the

Re: [Veritas-vx] encapsulation requires a reboot - why?

2008-03-02 Thread Ronald S Karr
When I first wrote the script (many, many, many moons ago), Solaris wasn't reliable about getting the disk driver to update its view of the partition table, which would cause confusion in some cases, so when I wrote this stuff I was overly conservative. But, even now, it is a bit tricky