On May 2, 2:02 pm, Wolfgang <wtra...@AT.web.de> wrote:
> Peter Havens schrieb:
>
> > The SAN disk is configured as a Solaris Volume Manager concat metadevice
> > and hosts various soft partitions...if my current metadevice is named
> > d90, can I create a new mirror named d95 that includes d90 as a
> > submirror (e.g. metainit d95 -m d90) without damaging d90, and while d90
> > is live?
>
> and why not establish a second mirror on your d90 and throw away the old
> one after that, like
> metainit d89 ...
> metanit d90 -m d89

Well, the d90 metadevice isn't a mirror. It's a simple concat
metadevice. So, I'm not sure I can "re-create" it as a mirror and
attach a submirror to it (is that possible?). Perhaps I misunderstood
what you meant, though.

Thanks,
Pete