DiskSuite help on new BayLISA webserver machine

Wed Nov 17 10:14:57 PST 2004

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> Synopsis:
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> I'm helping BayLISA upgrade the machine that hosts its mailing lists
> and web server (and other things).  The last thing to do is mirror
> its disks, yet this is proving nigh-impossible, because the machine
> always forgets where the metadbs are upon reboot. 

Never mind, I figured it out.  The refurbed disks we're using do not
report serial numbers; there's a workaround for sd.conf that makes
the kernel cobble up devids for such disks.

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