[illumos-Developer] dgroup.tab and friends

[Andrew Gabriel]

Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> I've recently been looking in some libraries (libadm, libpkg, etc.) and
> ran across a bunch of code for managing dgroup.tab.  I was curious.. I
> find some commands getdgrp, listdgrp, etc, which seem aimed at managing
> something called "device groups".
> 
> Searching online, I found some references to this stuff in man pages,
> but I can't seem to find any actual examples of how this is used, or
> evidence that it is even useful.
> 
> Does anyone here have background information?

It's related to Sun Cluster. I believe it's a group of devices (possibly 
just disks) which failover as one unit, but I'm not a Sun Cluster expert.

-- 
Andrew