Creating additional virtual disk nodes

The system creates 16 virtual disk nodes by default. If needed, additional virtual disk nodes can be created with idmknod. Edit /etc/conf/node.d/vdisk to define an additional node, then use the command /etc/conf/bin/idmknod to recreate the nodes.

By convention, all virtual disk nodes have the form /dev/rdsk/vdisk* for character virtual disks and /dev/dsk/vdisk* for block virtual disks. The characters at the end of the name must be integers. For example, /dev/rdsk/vdisk17 is an example of a character virtual disk device and /dev/dsk/vdisk22 is an example of a block virtual disk device.

Do not use the following virtual disk device names, which are reserved for the purpose specified:

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 Name     Reserved for:
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 vdisk0   administration
 vdisk1   mirroring root filesystem
 vdisk2   mirroring the swap device
 vdisk3   mirroring the boot device