Tag Archives: svm

Solutions for Solaris SVM Needs Maintenance and Last Erred status

This post is because while patching a Solaris 10 server with patch level Generic_142900-02 to Generic_142900-13.. There’s a need maintenance error on one of the sub mirror: When a slice in a mirror or RAID5 metadevice device experiences errors, DiskSuite puts the slice in the “Maintenance” state. No further reads or writes are performed to … Continue reading

Metastat Needs Maintenance Metareplace

Guilty! Putting all those Metastat keywords on one subject, that’s me! ANyway, I don’t want to stale this blog so once in a while I’m going to be posting some bits and pieces of Unix tools/tips.. and here’s a new one about SVM… Responding to Disk Errors courtesy of BigAdmin!

Replacing a Failed Disk in Solaris Mirror (SVM)

This one is about Solaris Volume Manager and all those meta commands you can think of.. (metadb, metadettach, metattach, metaclear etc)… Yesterday we had to replace a failed disk that belongs to a mirror. The disk is running in a Sparc Solaris 10 box. It’s a 72GB from Fujitsu c1t1d0           Soft Errors: 440 Hard Errors: … Continue reading