Well, it's time for a summary here. The original question (paraphrased) was "In an emergecny, can I boot off of either side of the VxVM mirror configured according to the Howard/Trantham blueprint?" (still quite a mouthful) According to MANY responses (thanks folks!), the answer is a resounding yes. This is exactly what the arrangement is designed for. Teressa suggested using a small slice on each disk to build the rootdg. I've done this before and it works well, but it's no longer officially supported which makes it a no-go for us, due to company policy. Several people said "don't do it--use SDS for the root mirroring, and put rootdg on some other disks." That has been the standard until now, but with hooking up the Hitachi, we don't have the ability to have two attached disks on different controllers to build rootdg. I had another question: "Can I build a CD with the VxVM drivers installed, so I could boot from a CD and directly mount veritas volumes?" Everyone agreed that this should be possible in principle, but it seems that no one has done it--I'm not actually aware of anyone who has built a custom boot CD for any purposes. I may look into this latter question in more detail in the future, but for now we're experimenting with the H/T rootdg root volumes. Thanks everyone! Colin -- | Colin Bigam, Senior Unix analyst | GE IT Solutions | colin.bigam@ge.com; (403)699-4584 _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Wed Jun 18 12:42:50 2003
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