Managing Metadevices

For ongoing management of metadevices, you must constantly monitor the metadevices for errors in operation, as discussed in "Monitoring Utilities".

When hastat(1M) reports a problem with a diskset, use the metastat(1M) command to locate the errored metadevice.

You must use the -s option when running either metastat(1M) or metatool(1M), so that you can specify the diskset name.

You should save the metadevice configuration information when you make changes to the configuration. Use metastat -p to create output similar to what is in the md.tab file and then save the output. Refer to "Saving Disk Partition Information (Solstice DiskSuite)", for details on saving partitioning data.