From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 8 19:29:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9171015654 for ; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 19:29:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA23439; Fri, 9 Apr 1999 11:57:41 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id LAA24361; Fri, 9 Apr 1999 11:57:41 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19990409115741.H2142@lemis.com> Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 11:57:41 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Peter Jeremy , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Volume managers (was: Separate boot partition?) References: <99Apr9.082856est.40334@border.alcanet.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <99Apr9.082856est.40334@border.alcanet.com.au>; from Peter Jeremy on Fri, Apr 09, 1999 at 08:41:53AM +1000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 9 April 1999 at 8:41:53 +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > Remy Nonnenmacher wrote: >> Think about it : A set of SCA, hot-pluggable disks. Every fs movable, >> resizable (up/down), every disk content movable from/to every other >> one.... the perfect power-on once, run till-end-of-universe server. > > Not quite. The [amc]time stamps in the inode run out in 2038. This > was discussed at length here last year (without any satisfactory > solution). (For one possible solution, check out RFC2550). Not a worry. In the meantime an upwards-compatible file system will be created, and you can copy the stuff across. The real problem is updating the kernel without rebooting. It would require some loosely-coupled MP system to achieve. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message