Dynamic Root Disk A.3.12.* Release Notes

4.5 Whole disk layout limitation
Issue Description – DRD clone fails when trying to clone a booted system with Whole Disk layout
While Ignite-UX does supports the Whole Disk layout, which has everything configured in the root (“/”) volume,
DRD does not support the cloning of such a configuration. DRD requires a volume manager to clone the boot
disk contents and since Whole disk layout does not have any volume manager configured ‘drd clone’ command
fails. It’s an expected behavior.
Here is the log seen while cloning such a configuration:
# drd clone -v -t /dev/disk/disk23
======= 10/01/12 12:16:09 IST BEGIN Clone System Image (user=root)
(jobid=iuxonx6)
* Reading Current System Information
ERROR: System information retrieval fails.
- Gathering system configuration information fails with the
following error(s):
- The command "/opt/drd/lbin/drd_save_config" fails with the return code 2.
The error message from the command is
"drd_save_config - running in drd context
drd_save_config: Error - disk not in the volume/disk group"
* Reading Current System Information failed with 1 error.
* DRD operation failed, contents of /var/opt/drd/tmp copied to
/var/opt/drd/save.
======= 10/01/12 12:16:15 IST END Clone System Image
failed with 1 error. (user=root) (jobid=iuxonx6)
Issue Resolution
There is no resolution to this case. DRD does not supports Whole disk layout.
4.6 Cloning with VxVM volumes having special characters
Issue Description – DRD clone fails when VxVM volume names have special characters
While Ignite-UX does supports VxVM volume names with special characters in it, DRD does not support
cloning of such a configuration. It’s an expected behavior.
Here is the ERROR message seen while cloning such a configuration:
ERROR: Clone file system creation fails.
- Creating the target file systems fails.
- Start of output from /usr/lib/vxvm/bin/vxrootmir:
- VxVM vxrootmir INFO V-5-2-2501 14:36: Gathering information on the
current VxVM root configuration
VxVM vxrootmir ERROR V-5-2-2522 Getting plex name for volume
abc!j'5k#!pzvol
- VxVM vxprint ERROR V-5-1-625 Error compiling pattern:
unrecognized
variable name
Issue Resolution