Example—Replacing a Failed Slice in a Mirror

The following example illustrates how to replace a failed slice when the system is not configured to use hot spare pools for the automatic replacement of failed disks. See Chapter 15, Hot Spare Pools (Overview) for more information about using hot spare pools.

# metastat d6
d6: Mirror
    Submirror 0: d16
      State: Okay        
    Submirror 1: d26
      State: Needs maintenance
...
d26: Submirror of d6
    State: Needs maintenance
    Invoke: metareplace d6 c0t2d0s2 <new device>
...
# metareplace d6 c0t2d0s2 c0t2d2s2
d6: device c0t2d0s2 is replaced with c0t2d2s2

The metastat command confirms that mirror d6 has a submirror, d26, with a slice in the “Needs maintenance” state. The metareplace command replaces the slice as specified in the “Invoke” line of the metastat output with another available slice on the system. The system confirms that the slice is replaced, and starts resynchronizing the submirror.