From: Christopher L. Barnard (cbar44@tsg.cbot.com)
Date: Wed Jan 12 2005 - 13:24:33 EST
I asked:
> I am configuring a new system with SDS/LVM/Fred/whatever-Sun-is-calling-
> their-disk-volume-manager-this-week. I have configured mirrors and stripes
> many times, but this is my first RAID volume. I have successfully metainit
> d5:
>
> d5 -r /dev/dsk/c2t8d0s5 /dev/dsk/c2t9d0s5 /dev/dsk/c2t10d0s5 \
> /dev/dsk/c2t11d0s5 /dev/dsk/c2t12d0s5
>
> I know that with mirrors of UFS filesystems it is not necessary to newfs
> the /dev/md/dsk partition but with stripes it is. Guessing that a RAID
> partition is similar, I attempted to newfs /dev/md/dsk/d5. No joy.
> What is the magic needed to mount and start using the RAID partition?
>
> Thanks, and I will summarize.
The answer:
chill. don't be so impatient. Go out and have a cup of coffee. Thats a
lot of disk space that SDS has to configure. Wait until "metastat d5" says
ok before trying to newfs it. And yes, I was trying to newfs the raw
partition, that was just a typo.
Thanks to all who answered so fast.
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