Machine Administration Guide 2.6

B.3.4.1 When using GDS4.1A30 or later

Using the menu item "Preventive Maintenance of the Hard Disk Drive (Hot Swap)", you can continue to mount the replaced disk in GDS.
Mounting the disks automatically implements resynchronization copying and enables the disks to be used in a file system.

1. Select the disk you are going to mount. If you want to mount all the disks replaced, enter "a".

   

   • When three or more mirror groups have been set up, two or more disks in the same mirror group cannot be mounted simultaneously. Mount them one at a time.
   • When a spare disk is used, resynchronization copying of the spare disk may be executed in the background. In this case, start mount processing after copying of the spare disk is completed.

   You can also quit the menu without mounting disks in GDS. In this case, execute the disk hot swap menu again or perform the mount operation using the GDS GUI menu or sdxswap command to mount the disk in GDS.

2. After you select the disk to mount, the following message appears:

   

3. If the correct disk is indicated, enter "y". Mounting the disk in GDS begins and the progress of resynchronization copying is displayed as shown below.

   Resynchronization copying takes about one minute per gigabyte of volume size for each volume allocated on the disk.

   

   This screen is renewed every minute and changes to the following window after resynchronization copying is finished.
   You can also enter "q" to quit the progress display. In this case, resynchronization copying continues to be executed in the background.
   You can check whether resynchronization copying is complete by using the sdxinfo command or checking messages output to /var/adm/messages.
   For more information, refer to the "SynfinityDisk Handbook" or "PRIMECLUSTER Global Disk Services Handbook."

   

4. Confirm the message content and enter "y". The replacement results are displayed as follows:

   

5. Confirm the message content, and enter "y".

   If an error occurs during replacement or mount processing, an error message displaying the action to be taken appears as shown below.
   See Section B.6, "Messages," for information on the message that appears.