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Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 Installation Guide: Planning for Installation and Upgrade Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 Information Library |
Part I Overall Planning of an Oracle Solaris Installation or Upgrade
1. Where to Find Oracle Solaris Installation Planning Information
2. Oracle Solaris Installation and Upgrade Roadmap
3. System Requirements, Guidelines, and Upgrade Information
4. Gathering Information Before an Installation or Upgrade
5. ZFS Root File System Installation Planning
6. SPARC and x86 Based Booting (Overview and Planning)
7. Upgrading When Oracle Solaris Zones Are Installed on a System
8. Creating RAID-1 Volumes (Mirrors) During Installation (Overview)
9. Creating RAID-1 Volumes (Mirrors) During Installation (Planning)
State Database Replicas Guidelines and Requirements
Selecting Slices for State Database Replicas
Choosing the Number of State Database Replicas
Distributing State Database Replicas Across Controllers
RAID-1 and RAID-0 Volume Requirements and Guidelines
JumpStart and Live Upgrade Guidelines
RAID Volume Name Requirements and Guidelines
Guidelines for Selecting Disks and Controllers
If a system with mirrors for root (/), /usr, and swap is booted into single-user mode, the system indicates that these mirrors are in need of maintenance. When you view these mirrors with the metastat command, these mirrors, and possibly all mirrors on the system, appear in the “Needing Maintenance” state.
Though this situation appears to be potentially dangerous, do not be concerned. The metasync -r command, which normally occurs during boot to resynchronize mirrors, is interrupted when the system is booted into single-user mode. After the system is rebooted, the metasync -r command runs and resynchronizes all mirrors.
If this interruption is a concern, run the metasync -r command manually.
For more information, see the metasync(1M) man page, and Solaris Volume Manager Administration Guide.