You have a SVM mirror and you need to grow it. Online. All steps are straight forward except for the last one. So, in a nutshell:
- Grow sizes of both submirror LUN’s on SAN
- Detach the first submirror metadevice
- Clear the submirror metadevice
- Make the system see new LUN size
- Recreate the submirror metadevice, attach it to the mirror and let it sync
- Repeat the above for the second submirror
- Not so obvious step
- Grow the filesystem
You have a mirror metadevice d200 consisting of submirrors d201 and d202. Both submirrors are sliced in such way that all space is allocated in slice 0. At this point both LUN’s should be already grown, but you need to make the system to see the size increase. Here is what d201, one of the submirrors of d200, should look like:
bash-3.00# metastat d201
d201: Submirror of d200
State: Okay
Size: 2064384 blocks (1008 MB)
Stripe 0:
Device Start Block Dbase State Reloc Hot Spare
/dev/dsk/c5t511714A510011C370000C00003410000d0s0 0 No Okay Yes
First, detach d201 from its parent and clear it:
bash-3.00# metadetach d200 d201
bash-3.00# metaclear d201
The next step is likely to alter the LUN slice configuration, so make sure you have it noted.
You need to run format command to get the system to see the grown LUN. So, run format then select type and then select Autoconfigure. At this point format should be reporting the new LUN size. Make sure your slice configuration is correct and that all the new space is tacked onto the end of correct slice. In this case, it’s slice 0.
Now recreate d201, attach it to d200 and let the mirror sync. When checking status of d200 note that overall mirror size is still the same but the size of d201 increased:
bash-3.00# metastat d200
d200: Mirror
Submirror 0: d202
State: Okay
Submirror 1: d201
State: Okay
Pass: 1
Read option: roundrobin (default)
Write option: parallel (default)
Size: 2064384 blocks (1008 MB)
d202: Submirror of d200
State: Okay
Size: 2064384 blocks (1008 MB)
Stripe 0:
Device Start Block Dbase State Reloc Hot Spare
/dev/dsk/c5t511714A510011C370000C00003460000d0s0 0 No Okay Yes
d201: Submirror of d200
State: Okay
Size: 4128768 blocks (2.0 GB)
Stripe 0:
Device Start Block Dbase State Reloc Hot Spare
/dev/dsk/c5t511714A510011C370000C00003410000d0s0 0 No Okay Yes
Now repeat the same process with d202. After you are done you will have both submirrors bigger, but the size of overall mirror will still be the same:
bash-3.00# metastat d200
d200: Mirror
Submirror 0: d201
State: Okay
Submirror 1: d202
State: Okay
Pass: 1
Read option: roundrobin (default)
Write option: parallel (default)
Size: 2064384 blocks (1008 MB)
d201: Submirror of d200
State: Okay
Size: 4128768 blocks (2.0 GB)
Stripe 0:
Device Start Block Dbase State Reloc Hot Spare
/dev/dsk/c5t511714A510011C370000C00003410000d0s0 0 No Okay Yes
d202: Submirror of d200
State: Okay
Size: 4161536 blocks (2.0 GB)
Stripe 0:
Device Start Block Dbase State Reloc Hot Spare
/dev/dsk/c5t511714A510011C370000C00003460000d0s0 0 No Okay Yes
Now comes the “Not so obvious” step. In order to increase overall mirror size you need to run metattach on the mirror itself:
bash-3.00# metattach d200
bash-3.00# metastat d200
d200: Mirror
Submirror 0: d201
State: Okay
Submirror 1: d202
State: Okay
Pass: 1
Read option: roundrobin (default)
Write option: parallel (default)
Size: 4128768 blocks (2.0 GB)
This will grow the size of the entire mirror to the size of submirror devices. Now you can grow the filesystem on it without unmounting it. Keep in mind that for the duration of growfs command there will be no writes to the volume.
bash-3.00# growfs -M /export/home/users /dev/md/rdsk/d200
/dev/md/rdsk/d200: 4128768 sectors in 126 cylinders of 128 tracks, 256 sectors
2016.0MB in 63 cyl groups (2 c/g, 32.00MB/g, 15040 i/g)
super-block backups (for fsck -F ufs -o b=#) at:
32, 65824, 131616, 197408, 263200, 328992, 394784, 460576, 526368, 592160,
3487008, 3552800, 3618592, 3684384, 3750176, 3815968, 3881760, 3947552,
4013344, 4079136
That’s all there is to it. The “Not so obvious” step is mentioned in the metattach man page. But unless you do this stuff every day, this very useful piece of information can be easily forgotten. Continue Reading
