Optimized Resynchronization

During a reboot following a system failure, or when a submirror that was offline is brought back online, Solaris Volume Manager performs an optimized mirror resynchronization. The metadisk driver tracks submirror regions. This functionality enables the metadisk driver to know which submirror regions might be out-of-sync after a failure. An optimized mirror resynchronization is performed only on the out-of-sync regions. You can specify the order in which mirrors are resynchronized during reboot. You can omit a mirror resynchronization by setting submirror pass numbers to zero. For tasks associated with changing a pass number, see Example 11–15.

A pass number of zero should only be used on mirrors that are mounted as read-only.