B.2.16.1 Creating an md.tab File

The /etc/opt/SUNWmd/md.tab file can be used by the metainit(1M) command to configure metadevices and hot spare pools in a batch-like mode. Solstice DiskSuite does not store configuration information in the md.tab file. The only way information appears in the md.tab is through editing it by hand.

When using the md.tab file, each metadevice or hot spare pool in the file must have a unique entry. Entries can include simple metadevices (stripes, concatenations, and concatenations of stripes); mirrors, trans metadevices, and RAID5 metadevices; and hot spare pools.

Because md.tab only contains entries that are manually included in it, you should not rely on the file for the current configuration of metadevices, hot spare pools, and replicas on the system at any given time.

Tabs, spaces, comments (preceded by a pound sign, #), and continuation of lines (preceded by a backslash-newline), are allowed.