metaimport(1M) System Administration Commands metaimport(1M)NAMEmetaimport - imports disk sets into existing Solaris Volume Manager
configurations
SYNOPSISmetaimport-s setname [-n] [-f] [-v] [disks]...
metaimport-r [-v] [disks]...
metaimport-V
metaimport -?
DESCRIPTION
The metaimport command allows the importing of disk sets, including
replicated disk sets, into an existing Solaris Volume Manager configu‐
ration. Replicated disk sets are disk sets created using remote repli‐
cation software.
The default Solaris Volume Manager configuration specifies a maximum
number of disk sets that can be configured. The metaimport command
fails if importing the disk set would result in exceeding the number of
disk sets configured on the system. To increase the number of disk sets
allowed on a system, see the .
Use metaset(1M) or metastat(1M) to view the configuration of the
imported set.
You must run metaimport as root.
metaimport requires a functional Solaris Volume Manager configuration
before it runs.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-f Force the import, even if a quorum of replicas from the
imported disk set is not available. This option could
result in corrupt configurations and should only be used
when metaimport fails with the "Insufficient quorum
detected; exiting" error. If only a partial disk set is
available, this option might be necessary to successfully
import. Some or all data could be corrupted or unavail‐
able when importing a partial set or a set lacking a
replica quorum.
-n Does not actually perform the operation, but shows the
output or errors that would have resulted from the opera‐
tion, had it been run.
-r Report on the non-configured disk sets found on the sys‐
tem. If no disk device or LUN is specified, metaimport
reports on all non-configured disk sets attached to the
system. When the name of one disk is specified, metaim‐
port reports on the disk set (or virtual LUN) containing
the specified disk. If two or more disks are specified,
metaimport reports on the set (or sets, if they belong to
different disk sets) containing the specified disks. If
two or more disks are specified, metaimport reports on
the set (or sets, if they belong to different disk sets)
containing the specified disks.
This option can be used in conjunction with the -v option
to give verbose output on each disk set reported.
-s setname Specify the disk set name to use when importing. The
imported disk set will be called setname, without regard
to the name it may have had on a different system.
-v Verbose. Provides detailed information about the metadb
replica location and status. It also provides detailed
information about the disk set configuration and status
similar to the "metastat -c" output.
-V Version information.
-? Display a help message.
EXAMPLES
Example 1 Importing a Disk Set
The following example creates a disk set called blue and identifies
c1t5d0 as a disk containing a state database replica from the disk set
being imported.
# metaimport-s blue c1t5d0
Example 2 Reporting Disk Sets to Import
The following example scans all disks and LUNs attached to the system
and configured as part of the system. It scans for disks that could be
part of a disk set to be imported. Components that are already part of
the Solaris Volume Manager configuration are ignored.
This use of metaimport provides suggested forms of the metaimport com‐
mand to use to actually import the disk sets that have been found. You
can specify a component on the command line to reduce the scope of the
scan and generate results more quickly.
# metaimport-r
EXIT STATUS
0 Successful completion.
>0 An error occurred.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
│ ATTRIBUTE TYPE │ ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Availability │storage/svm │
├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Interface Stability │Committed │
└─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
SEE ALSOmdmonitord(1M), metaclear(1M), metadb(1M), metadetach(1M), metahs(1M),
metainit(1M), metaoffline(1M), metaonline(1M), metaparam(1M), metare‐
cover(1M), metareplace(1M), metaroot(1M), metaset(1M), metastat(1M),
metasync(1M), metattach(1M), md.tab(4), md.cf(4), mddb.cf(4),
attributes(5)SunOS 5.11 28 Oct 2005 metaimport(1M)
