From: David Foster (foster@ncmir.ucsd.edu)
Date: Thu Nov 20 2003 - 15:10:45 EST
We have a V880z with Solaris 9 (8/03) installed, latest
recommended patches.
I created a 4 x 73GB striped RAID volume using Solaris Volume
Manager, via Sun Management Center. Had no problems creating
a filesystem with 'newfs', and the volume mounted find.
But on boot the system complains about not being able to load
several modules related to Volume Manager:
Nov 14 16:20:55 shine genunix: [ID 370176 kern.warning] WARNING: forceload of mi
sc/md_trans failed
Nov 14 16:20:55 shine genunix: [ID 370176 kern.warning] WARNING: forceload of mi
sc/md_raid failed
Nov 14 16:20:55 shine genunix: [ID 370176 kern.warning] WARNING: forceload of mi
sc/md_hotspares failed
Nov 14 16:20:55 shine genunix: [ID 370176 kern.warning] WARNING: forceload of mi
sc/md_sp failed
The fsck of this volume fails on boot (set to fsck in pass 3 in vfstab),
and when I try it manually it complains that the device is not found.
Once the system boots up, if I run Sun Management Center and go to
Enhanced Storage and select my Disk Set, it complains that my server
doesn't own the disk set. I specify to take ownership of the disk set,
(runs the command '/usr/sbin/metaset -s share0 -t')
and then I can mount my volume (after having to umount it first,
/etc/mnttab gets an entry from our NIS map of NFS shares...WTF??
don't see this on any of our other Suns).
What really confuses me is that if I reboot I need to go through this
same procedure again, the server still doesn't "own" the disk set.
Can someone tell me what I have missed which is (a) causing Volume
Manager modules to fail forceload on boot; and (b) causing me to have
to take ownership of my disk set each time I boot up.
I'm used to Veritas Volume Manager, I am a Sun Volume Manager beginner
so please be kind.
Dave Foster
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dfoster[at]ucsd[dot]edu Department of Neuroscience, Mail 0608
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