From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 1 22:26:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA05101 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 1 Oct 1996 22:26:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from itchy.mindspring.com (itchy.mindspring.com [204.180.128.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA05094 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 1996 22:26:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from borg.mindspring.com (borg.mindspring.com [204.180.128.14]) by itchy.mindspring.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA15545; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 01:26:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: from bogus.mindspring.com (user-168-121-39-4.dialup.mindspring.com [168.121.39.4]) by borg.mindspring.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id BAA23270; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 01:26:35 -0400 Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19961002052637.008e9d0c@mindspring.com> X-Sender: kpneal@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 01:26:37 -0400 To: buhrow@cats.ucsc.edu (Brian Buhrow) From: "Kevin P. Neal" Subject: Re: VPS mailing list, BSD interest? Cc: "Justin T. Gibbs" , Jason Thorpe , Poul-Henning Kamp , James Graham , hackers@FreeBSD.org, tech-kern@NetBSD.ORG Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 12:06 PM 10/1/96 -0700, Brian Buhrow wrote: > From my perspective as an administrator of systems which use both types >of virtual disk drivers, I have to say that I like the NetBSD way of >keeping the configuration file in a flat text file much better. Veritos is >powerful, but it doesn't auto-recover from failed disks, and it is very >hard to manage its configuration information precisely because it is stored >on distributed areas of disks which are unreachable by mere mortals living >on FFS filesystems. How about storing the data in a private section of the disk, and being able to export the data into a flat file, human readable? Then also being able to parse the output file and restore it onto the disk? I mean, the mount command on some (all?) systems can generate an fstab. Why not the virtual disk device? -- XCOMM Kevin P. Neal, Sophomore, Comp. Sci. \ kpneal@pobox.com XCOMM "Corrected!" -- Old Amiga tips file \ kpneal@eos.ncsu.edu XCOMM Visit the House of Retrocomputing: / Perm. Email: XCOMM http://www.pobox.com/~kpn/ / kevinneal@bix.com