Metadevice Naming Conventions

Using a naming convention for your metadevices can help with your DiskSuite administration, and enable you at a glance to easily identify the metadevice type. Here are a few suggestions:

• Use ranges for each particular type of metadevice. For example, assign numbers 0-20 for mirrors, 21-40 for stripes and concatenations, and so on.

• Use a naming relationship for mirrors. For example, name mirrors with a number ending in zero (0), and submirrors ending in one (1) and two (2). For example: mirror-d10, submirrors d11 and d12; mirror-d20, submirrors d21 and d22, and so on.

• Use a naming method that maps the slice number and disk number to metadevice numbers.

The metarename command enables you to reorganize your metadevice names. Refer to the metarename(1M) man page for more information.