Chapter 3
Managing Disk Volumes
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3. To check the status of a RAID striped volume, type the following command:
The example shows that the RAID striped volume is online and functioning.
Under RAID 0 (disk striping),there is no replication of data across drives. The data is
written to the RAID volume across all member disks in a round-robin fashion. If any
one disk is lost, all data on the volume is lost. For this reason, RAID 0 cannot be
used to ensure data integrity or availability, but can be used to increase write
performance in some scenarios.
For more information about the
raidctl
utility, see the
raidctl
(1M) man page.
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To Configure and Label a Hardware RAID
Volume for Use in the Solaris Operating System
After a creating a RAID volume using
raidctl
, use
format
(
1M
) to configure and
label the volume before attempting to use it in the Solaris operating system.
1. Start the
format
utility
The
format
utility might generate messages about corruption of the current label on
the volume, which you are going to change. You can safely ignore these messages.
#
raidctl
RAID Volume RAID RAID Disk
Volume Type Status Disk Status
--------------------------------------------------------
c0t1d0
IS
OK
c0t1d0
OK
c0t2d0
OK
c0t3d0
OK
#
format
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