Dear Veritas Gurus,
I need to patch 300+ Solaris servers WITHOUT:
a) excessive downtime
b) giving up all of my weekends for the rest of the year
c) excessive downtime if I need to backout the patches
My cunning plan is this:
1. Add a third rootdisk mirror
2. Break the mirror
3. Mount the broken mirror under /patch (/patch/opt, /patch/var, /patch/usr)
4. Patch the broken mirror with patchadd -R /patch
(I can do this during normal working hours with no downtime!)
5. Apply the patches by booting off the patched disk
(30 minutes work/downtime on a weekend, rather than 4 hours to install a huge patch bundle)
6. If necessary, backout of the patches by booting from the unpatched root disk(s)
(30 minutes work/downtime on a weekend, rather than 4 hours to UNinstall a huge patch bundle)
I thought this was clever until I started trying to create the procedure.
I mirror the root disk no problem.
I break the mirror no problem (disassociate the volumes).
To mount a plex, it needs to be in a volume, so I create a volume... To create a volume you must specify a plex... upon creation, the volume and the plex are EMPTY:o(
At this point I hit a brick wall. I can't even fsck the volume.
I have tried everything I can think of and am going mad.
I need to either:
i) Create a NON-EMPTY volume with a NON-EMPTY plex containing the data on the disk
or
ii) Convince VM that the plex/volume is NOT EMPTY and accept the data on the disk
Please help!
