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    1.1 Creating Soft Partitions: EMDC UNIX Ops Procedural Library

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    This document discusses various ways to use soft partitions in Solaris, including: 1. Creating soft partitions from disk slices or existing metadevices like RAID5 arrays. 2. Mirroring and combining soft partitions. 3. Using soft partitions for filesystems, UFS logging devices, and layering on top of other metadevices. 4. Soft partitions provide flexibility but have some limitations like not being able to be layered directly on other soft partitions.

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    This document discusses various ways to use soft partitions in Solaris, including: 1. Creating soft partitions from disk slices or existing metadevices like RAID5 arrays. 2. Mirroring and combining soft partitions. 3. Using soft partitions for filesystems, UFS logging devices, and layering on top of other metadevices. 4. Soft partitions provide flexibility but have some limitations like not being able to be layered directly on other soft partitions.

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    1.1 Creating Soft Partitions: EMDC UNIX Ops Procedural Library

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    1.1 Creating Soft Partitions


    There are 3 methods to create a soft partition using the metainit command:

    Crete meta devices

    1.2 Mirroring Soft Partitions


    Once you have created soft partitions, what can you do with them? Well, one thing to do is to
    create mirrors out of them. Unfortunately, even though a soft partition is a metadevice, they
    cannot serve directly as a submirror. For example:

    -p = soft partition is specified.

    # metainit d10 -p c1t1d0s2 16g  creating soft partition with whole disk
    d10: Soft Partition is setup

    # metastat d10
    d10: Soft Partition
    Device: c1t1d0s2
    State: Okay
    Size: 33554432 blocks (16 GB)
    Device Start Block Dbase Reloc
    c1t1d0s2 3636 No No

    Extent Start Block Block count


    0 3637 33554432
    Device Relocation Information:
    Device Reloc Device ID
    c1t1d0 No -

    # metastat –p
    d10 -p c1t1d0s2 -o 3637 -b 33554432

    Create new FS
    # newfs -v /dev/md/rdsk/d10
    Mount FS
    Add line in /etc/vfstab
    /dev/md/dsk/d10 /dev/md/rdsk/d1 /soft-examp ufs 2 yes -

    # mount /soft-examp

    Check the FS
    # df -h /soft-examp
    Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on
    /dev/md/dsk/d10 16G 16M 16G 1% /soft-examp

    metainit d10 -p c1t1d0s2 --> soft partition

    metainit d27 1 1 c1t1d0s0 --> normal partition

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    Instead, you must first take the soft partition and create a simple concat/stripe out of it. For example:

    # metainit d10 -p c1t0d0s0 100m


    d10: Soft Partition is setup
    # metainit d20 1 1 d10 creating metadevice with d10(instead of c#t#d#)
    d20: Concat/Stripe is setup
    # metainit d30 -m d20  attaching mirrors
    d30: Mirror is setup

    # metainit d11 -p c2t0d0s0 100m


    d11: Soft Partition is setup
    # metainit d21 1 1 d11
    d21: Concat/Stripe is setup
    # metattach d30 d21
    d30: submirror d21 is attached

    Once done, the resulting metastat output of the mirror will look like this:

    # metastat d30

    d30: Mirror
    Submirror 0: d20
    State: Okay
    Submirror 1: d21
    State: Okay
    Pass: 1
    Read option: roundrobin (default)
    Write option: parallel (default)
    Size: 204624 blocks

    d20: Submirror of d30


    State: Okay
    Size: 204624 blocks
    Stripe 0:
    Device Start Block Dbase State Hot Spare
    d10 0 No Okay

    d10: Soft Partition


    Component: c1t0d0s0
    State: Okay
    Size: 204800 blocks
    Extent Start Block Block count
    0 1 204800

    d21: Submirror of d30


    State: Okay
    Size: 204624 blocks
    Stripe 0:
    Device Start Block Dbase State Hot Spare
    d11 0 No Okay

    d11: Soft Partition


    Component: c2t0d0s0
    State: Okay
    Size: 204800 blocks
    Extent Start Block Block count
    0 1 204800 2
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    1.3 Combining Soft Partitions Together into a RAID5 Device

    RAID5 devices can be made up of soft partitions directly. This example shows 4 soft partitions (from 4
    separate slices) striped together to make a RAID5 device:

    # metainit d1 -p c1t0d0s0 10m


    d1: Soft Partition is setup
    # metainit d2 -p c2t0d0s0 10m
    d2: Soft Partition is setup
    # metainit d3 -p c3t0d0s0 10m
    d3: Soft Partition is setup
    # metainit d4 -p c4t0d0s0 10m
    d4: Soft Partition is setup
    # metainit d10 -r d1 d2 d3 d4
    d10: RAID is setup

    Once done, the resulting metastat output of the RAID5 device will look like this:

    # metastat d10

    d10: RAID
    State: Okay
    Interlace: 32 blocks
    Size: 59472 blocks
    Original device:
    Size: 60384 blocks
    Device Start Block Dbase State Hot Spare
    d1 330 No Okay
    d2 330 No Okay
    d3 330 No Okay
    d4 330 No Okay

    d1: Soft Partition


    Component: c1t0d0s0
    State: Okay
    Size: 20480 blocks
    Extent Start Block Block count
    0 1 20480

    d2: Soft Partition


    Component: c2t0d0s0
    State: Okay
    Size: 20480 blocks
    Extent Start Block Block count
    0 1 20480

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    d3: Soft Partition


    Component: c3t0d0s0
    State: Okay
    Size: 20480 blocks
    Extent Start Block Block count
    0 1 20480

    d4: Soft Partition


    Component: c4t0d0s0
    State: Okay
    Size: 20480 blocks
    Extent Start Block Block count
    0 1 20480

    1.4 Using Soft Partitions for MetaTrans (UFS Logging) Devices


    MetaTrans devices (UFS logging) can be built on top of soft partitions. Soft partitions can be
    used for the master device, the logging device, or both. In the following example, soft partitions
    are used for both the master and the logging device:
    # metainit d1 -p c1t0d0s0 500m
    d1: Soft Partition is setup
    # metainit d2 -p c2t0d0s0 50m
    d2: Soft Partition is setup
    # metainit d10 -t d1 d2
    d1: Trans is setup

    Once done, the resulting metastat output of the metatrans device will look like this:

    # metastat d10
    d10: Trans
    State: Okay
    Size: 1024000 blocks
    Master Device: d1
    Logging Device: d2

    d1: Soft Partition


    Component: c1t1d3s0
    State: Okay
    Size: 1024000 blocks
    Extent Start Block Block count
    0 1 1024000

    d2: Logging device for d10


    State: Okay
    Size: 102142 blocks

    d2: Soft Partition


    Component: c1t1d1s0
    State: Okay
    Size: 102400 blocks 4
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    Extent Start Block Block count


    0 1 102400

    1.5 Layering

    Most of the time, soft partitions are made on a disk slice. However, there are certain situations where it
    can be beneficial to make a soft partition on top of an existing metadevice. This is referred to as layering.

    For example, say you have a 90GB RAID5 device made up of 6 18GB disks. You can then take that
    90GB device and "split it up" into many soft partitions. These many soft partitions then can be accessed
    as separate simple metadevices, although the data in them is protected by the RAID5 parity in the
    underlying device.

    Soft partitions can be layered only on top of concat/stripes, mirrors, and RAID5 devices. Soft partitions
    cannot be layered on top of a metatrans device or directly on top of another soft partition.

    Here is an example of layering soft partitions on top of an existing RAID5 metadevice. First, we create
    the RAID5 device, then soft partition that device into 3 100MB partitions (obviously, we could create
    more than just 3 soft partitions).

    # metainit d0 -r c1t0d2s0 c1t0d4s0 c1t1d1s0 c1t1d3s0


    d0: RAID is setup

    # metainit d1 -p d0 100m
    d1: Soft Partition is setup
    # metainit d2 -p d0 100m
    d2: Soft Partition is setup
    # metainit d3 -p d0 100m
    d3: Soft Partition is setup

    Each of the resulting soft partitions (d1, d2, and d3) can be accessed individually (i.e., newfs and mount).

    Soft partitions can be built on top of an existing mirror device as well, just like we did above on the
    RAID5 device. In the following example, the mirror device (d0) is "carved up" into 3 smaller soft
    partitions.

    # metainit d10 1 1 c1t0d2s0


    d10: Concat/Stripe is setup
    # metainit d20 1 1 c2t0d0s0
    d20: Concat/Stripe is setup
    # metainit d0 -m d10 d20
    d0: Mirror is setup

    # metainit d1 -p d0 100m
    d1: Soft Partition is setup
    # metainit d2 -p d0 100m 5
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    d2: Soft Partition is setup


    # metainit d3 -p d0 100m
    d3: Soft Partition is setup

    Soft partitions are not allowed to be parented by other soft partitions directly. For example:

    # metainit d1 -p c1t0d0s0 100m


    d1: Soft Partition is setup
    # metainit d2 -p d1 10m
    metainit: hostname: d1: invalid unit

    Soft partitions also cannot be built on top of trans (UFS logging) devices. For example:

    # metainit d1 -t d10 d20


    d1: Trans is setup
    # metainit d2 -p d1 100m
    metainit: hostname: d1: invalid unit

    1.6

    1.7

    1.8

    1.9
    1.10 Growing Soft Partitions
    usclscps001:root> metastat -p d500
    d500 5 1 /dev/dsk/emcpower15a \
    1 /dev/dsk/emcpower16a \
    1 /dev/dsk/emcpower17a \
    1 /dev/dsk/emcpower19a \

    Here I attach a LUN to metadevice d500


    -------------------------------------------
    metattach d500 /dev/rdsk/emcpower20a

    Now d500 have an internal disk and a LUN from storage

    usclscps001:root> metastat -p d500


    d500 5 1 /dev/dsk/emcpower15a \
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    1 /dev/dsk/emcpower16a \
    1 /dev/dsk/emcpower17a \
    1 /dev/dsk/emcpower19a \
    1 /dev/dsk/emcpower20a \

    metastat -p d500

    Here is the command to increase the soft partition /dev/md/dsk/d501


    --------------------------------------------------------------------
    metattach d501 18g

    After you increase the soft partition, you need to increase the filesystem with growfs
    ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    growfs -M /archive /dev/md/rdsk/d501

    /archive --> mount point

    usclscps001:root> df -h /archive
    Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on
    /dev/md/dsk/d501 19G 1.9G 17G 10% /archive
    usclscps001:root>

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