Discovering the name of array to mount

[iowaprogrammer]

I have two solaris machines. Machine 'A' is currently using the array and actively online. On machine 'A' the array is mounted as

/dev/dsk/c2t5d0s7 /usr/tester ufs rw,intr,largefiles,logging,onerror=panic,suid,dev=8000a7 1220891218
/dev/md/dsk/d7 /usr/home ufs rw,intr,largefiles,logging,onerror=panic,suid,dev=1540007 1220891218

Now I want to shut machine 'A' down and mount this array to machine 'B'


So my question is when I unplug the array from 'A' and connect it to machine 'B'. will the mount names be the same for use on the 'B' machine? If not How do I go about finding the names of the array that I would use? Not really sure about this process or what is really involved.

Thank you

 

[bfitzmai]

Iowaprogrammer,

The mounting of /dev/dsk/c2t5d0s7 to /usr/tester is created by an entry in /etc/vfstab.

/dev/md/dsk/d7 is a metadevice set up by an application like Solaris Volume Manager. It could be anything from a Concatenated Disk Drive to a Raid 5 Drive. Since it is mounted to /usr/home, my guess would be it is a Raid 1 (Mirror) of 2 or more disk partitions. You can use Solaris Management Console (smc) to view how your metadevices are being used.

You will probably have to recreate your metadevices on Machine 'B' unless someone here knows if it is possible to transfer a state database from one machine to another.