A lot depends on what is causing the problem. Since the disks are mirrored, if the file system has been made corrupt because of a software related issue (such as sudden loss of power), both disks will likely have the same problem. Booting from the mirror won't help in this situation.
If the corruption is due to a malfunction in one disk, you need to replace the disk before trying to fix the filesystem or you will just end up doing it all again and again until the disk gives up and dies.
It would help to know how these disks are mirrored. Are they set up as a RAID-1 in a hardware RAID controller and appear as a single disk in the OS? Are they set up using Solaris Volume Manager as a mirror device wher ehte OS sees both disks but addresses them through a mirror device like /dev/md/dsk/d0? Are they a ZFS mirror pool? Are they a VxVM encapsulation?
Your choices and tasks will vary according to how the mirror is controlled. Can you provide more information on that please?
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by: greg_vanderPosted on 2009-08-14 at 06:26:49ID: 25097703
hi
personnally I would start by fsck in single user mode on the actual config before breaking mirror (hard or soft ?)
regards