Hi all, My question is on Disksuite 4.2.1/Solaris 8. The Disksuite installation creates a number of links under /dev/dsk/md and /dev/rdsk/md that all point to device special files. Is it possible to change the names on these links without creating masses of additional work and chaos? My company wants to use 3-character names for these devices and the default setup starts with 2-character names (d1, d2, d3) and so on. They want names like e.g. D442 which would mean disk4 slice4 <some number>. <some number> is simply one of a series of consecutive numbers that are assigned by the application admins for their own reasons. thanks, Denis Grannell

Yes. You have to modify the contents of /kernel/drv/md.conf to change the line name="md" parent="pseudo" nmd=128 md_nsets=4; such that the nmd ("number of metadevices") parameter is large enough to accommodate the device numbers you wish to use. (The maximum value is 8192.) You can then reconfigure boot ("reboot -- -r") and the appropriate links will be created. If you search on docs.sun.com for md.conf, you can get additional guidance. Cheers Stephen

Hi Stephan, Thanks a lot much for that tip, much appreciated. cheers, Denis

This option might give performande problems... when doing maintenance on Disksuite enviroment (it did it in the past...!)