[osol-discuss] Size of Solaris 9 SVM metadb

[Steven Sim]

hello Gurus;

In Sun Info Doc 72063, it clearly says that Solaris 9 SVM metadbs are 
8192 blocks in size while earlier version of SDS have metadb which are 
1034 blocks in size.

I am guessing the incorrect terminology was used?

It should be 8192 sectors and 1034 sectors instead of 8192 blocks and 
1034 blocks?

ufs blocks are default 8K in size. A 8192 block size would = 8k * 8192 = 
64 Mbyte!!

The above cannot be because Sun formal recommendation for the metadb 
slice is only 32 Mbytes! (256 Mbytes is now defunct)

But metadb reside on non ufs slices so I am guesing the block size refer 
to sector sizes (512 bytes).

Thus one metadb would be 8192 * 512 bytes = 4k?

Warmest Regards
Steven Sim




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