metaimport(1M)

NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | OPTIONS | EXAMPLES | EXIT STATUS | ATTRIBUTES | SEE ALSO

NAME

metaimport– imports disk sets into existing Solaris Volume Manager configurations

SYNOPSIS

metaimport -s setname [-n] [-v] [disks…]
metaimport -r [disks…]
metaimport -V
metaimport -?

DESCRIPTION

The metaimport command allows importing disk sets into an existing Solaris Volume Manager configuration.

The default Solaris Volume Manager configuration specifies a maximum number of disk sets that can be configured. The metaimport command fails if importing the disk set would result in exceeding the number of disk sets configured on the system. To increase the number of disk sets allowed on a system, see the Solaris Volume Manager Administration Guide.

Use metaset(1M) or metastat(1M) to view the configuration of the imported set.

You must run metaimport as root.

metaimport requires a functional Solaris Volume Manager configuration before it runs.

OPTIONS

The following options are supported:

-n

Does not actually perform the operation, but shows the output or errors that would have resulted from the operation, had it been run.

-r

Report on the non-configured disk sets found on the system. If no disk device or LUN is specified, metaimport reports on all non-configured disk sets attached to the system. When the name of one disk is specified, metaimport reports on the disk set (or virtual LUN) containing the specified disk. If two or more disks are specified, metaimport reports on the set (or sets, if they belong to different disk sets) containing the specified disks. If two or more disks are specified, metaimport reports on the set (or sets, if they belong to different disk sets) containing the specified disks.

-s setname

Specify the disk set name to use when importing. The imported disk set will be called setname, without regard to the name it may have had on a different system.

-v

Verbose. Provides detailed information about the metadb replica location and status.

-V

Version information.

-?

Display a help message.

EXAMPLES

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Example 1 Importing a Disk Set




The following example creates a disk set called blue and identifies c1t5d0 as a disk containing a state database replica from the disk set being imported.

# metaimport -s blue c1t5d0

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Example 2 Reporting Disk Sets to Import




The following example scans all disks and LUNs attached to the system and configured as part of the system. It scans for disks that could be part of a disk set to be imported. Components that are already part of the Solaris Volume Manager configuration are ignored.

This use of metaimport provides suggested forms of the metaimport command to use to actually import the disk sets that have been found. You can specify a component on the command line to reduce the scope of the scan and generate results more quickly.

# metaimport -r

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EXIT STATUS

0

Successful completion.

>0

An error occurred.

ATTRIBUTES

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Availability	SUNWmdu
Stability	Stable

SEE ALSO

mdmonitord(1M), metaclear(1M), metadb(1M), metadetach(1M), metahs(1M), metainit(1M), metaoffline(1M), metaonline(1M), metaparam(1M), metarecover(1M), metareplace(1M), metaroot(1M), metaset(1M), metasync(1M), metattach(1M), md.tab(4), md.cf(4), mddb.cf(4), attributes(5)

Solaris Volume Manager Administration Guide

SunOS 5.9  Last Revised 11 Jan 2004

NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | OPTIONS | EXAMPLES | EXIT STATUS | ATTRIBUTES | SEE ALSO