Disksuite - Should mirror state be ok before S98SUNWmd.sync?

[John Navitsky]

Hello,

I've currently set up some Solaris 2.5.1 systems with all the disks =
mirrored
with Disksuite 4.1.  Each system has six disks for a total of three disks=
 with
three mirrors.

I've done a test where I've temporarily taken the S98SUNWmd.sync out of =
rc2.d.
And when all the metadisks are in a clean state (all applications out of =
the
rc2.d and rc3.d directories), shut the system down with "init 0".  Then, =
after
booting the system, all the mirrors state that they need attention.    =
I've run
this test several times and the result is always the same.

Running metasync or S98SUNWmd.sync works fine, but it would seem that if =
the
system was shut down correctly and especially if there was basically =
nothing
running that the mirrors should come up as "ok".  I assumed that =
S98SUNWmd.sync
was there as a "just in case" kind of thing?  Shouldn't the state be "ok"=
 unless
something bad happened?

Also, it seems odd that SUNWmd.sync is so far down in the startup =
sequence.  I'd
think you would want run it early on, like S02 or such.  Any thoughts =
here? =20

Thanks,

-john