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Solaris Cluster metareplace Command for a Replaced cluster 'DID' Disk in SVM Metaset Return the Error "No such file or directory" (Doc ID 1607179.1)

Last updated on MAY 07, 2024

Applies to:

Sun Solaris Volume Manager (SVM) - Version 11.9.0 to 11.11 [Release 11.0]
Solaris Cluster - Version 3.0 to 4.4 [Release 3.0 to 4.4]
Oracle Solaris on SPARC (64-bit)
Oracle Solaris on x86-64 (64-bit)

Symptoms

In a Solaris Cluster environment the cluster DID device is used in the Solaris Volume Manager (SVM) disksets. If one of the cluster DID disk got broken then the metastat output suggest the metareplace command to be used once the disk got physically replaced.

Example of metastat output when did d5 disk got broken:

dg-cluster/d100: Mirror
   Submirror 0: dg-cluster/d102
     State: Okay
   Submirror 1: dg-cluster/d101
     State: Needs maintenance
   Pass: 1
   Read option: roundrobin (default)
   Write option: parallel (default)
   Size: 12597888 blocks (6.0 GB)

dg-cluster/d102: Submirror of dg-cluster/d100
   State: Okay
   Size: 12597888 blocks (6.0 GB)
   Stripe 0:
       Device   Start Block  Dbase        State Reloc Hot Spare
       d4s4            0     No            Okay   No

dg-cluster/d101: Submirror of dg-cluster/d100
   State: Needs maintenance
   Invoke: metareplace dg-cluster/d100 d5s4 <new device>
   Size: 12597888 blocks (6.0 GB)
   Stripe 0:
       Device   Start Block  Dbase        State Reloc Hot Spare
       d5s4            0     No     Maintenance   No

 

Running the suggested metareplace command once the disk has been replaced and the did device associated to it has been synced to the new disk devid, the following error has been reported

 

Changes

 

Cause

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