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Chapter 9 Alternate Pathing 2.2 on the Sun Enterprise 10000 Server 143
b. Create an uncommitted disk pathgroup.
where:
-c
causes the pathgroup to be created
-p
designates the primary path
-a
designates the alternate path.
You can verify the results by using
apconfig(1M)
as shown above.
c. Commit the database entries.
You can verify the results of the above command by using
apconfig -S
.
d. Rebuild the devices directories.
As shown above, you can verify the results of the
drvconfig(1M)
command by
listing the contents of
/devices/pseudo/ap_dmd*
.
e. Create symbolic links from the devices directory
/devices/pseudo
to the
special metadisk files in
/dev/ap/dsk
and
/dev/ap/rdsk
.
As shown above, you can verify the results of the
apconfig(1M)
command by
listing the contents of
/dev/ap/dsk
to view the symbolic links.
# apdisk -c -p pln0 -a pln1
# apconfig -S -u
# apdb -C
# drvconfig -i ap_dmd
# ls -l /devices/pseudo/ap_dmd*
...
# apconfig -R
# ls -l /dev/ap/dsk
...