Solaris Volume Manager Administration Guide

ProcedureHow to Enable a Slice in a Submirror

Steps
  1. Make sure that you have root privilege and that you have a current backup of all data.

  2. Read Overview of Replacing and Enabling Components in RAID 1 and RAID 5 Volumes and Background Information for RAID 1 Volumes.

  3. Use one of the following methods to enable a slice in a submirror.

    • From the Enhanced Storage tool within the Solaris Management Console, open the Volumes node, choose the mirror, then choose Action->Properties and click the Submirrors tab. Follow the instructions on screen. For more information, see the online help.

    • Use the metareplace command to enable a failed slice in a submirror.


      # metareplace -e mirror failed-slice 
      

      The metareplace command automatically starts a resynchronization to synchronize the repaired or replaced slice with the rest of the mirror.

      See the metareplace(1M) man page for more information.


Example 11–11 Enabling a Slice in a Submirror


# metareplace -e d11 c1t4d0s7
d11: device c1t4d0s7 is enabled

In this example, the mirror d11 has a submirror that contains slice, c1t4d0s7, which had a soft error. The metareplace command with the -e option enables the failed slice.

If a physical disk is defective, you can either replace it with another available disk (and its slices) on the system as documented in How to Replace a Slice in a Submirror. Alternatively, you can repair/replace the disk, format it, and run the metareplace command with the -e option as shown in this example.