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Date:      Tue, 10 Apr 2007 19:46:07 +0200
From:      Gergely CZUCZY <phoemix@harmless.hu>
To:        Eric Anderson <anderson@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-geom@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: volume management
Message-ID:  <20070410174607.GA26432@harmless.hu>
In-Reply-To: <461BCC85.2080900@freebsd.org>
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On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 12:42:29PM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote:
> >>It will be
> >>great to just fix everything in the kernel to handle errors properly,
> >>but good luck with that.
> >That's a worthy goal and something we should be pursuing.  After all,
> >FreeBSD used to be noted for its stability.  I wouldn't call panics a si=
gn
> >of stability..  You're better off invalidating all the geom consumers and
> >leaving the rest of the system up so an admin can try to recover critical
> >data, or so the remaining geom providers can continue to function.
>=20
> There's been talk in the past about making the mount read-only instead of=
 a panic in some=20
> situations, but I know nothing more than that.
I quite like this idea, but what about updates? I don't know
whether updates require additional space for UFS2 or not, but
I can imagine the opportunity when updates can be done while
there is no more space for allocating new blocks.

Bye,

Gergely Czuczy
mailto: gergely.czuczy@harmless.hu

--=20
Weenies test. Geniuses solve problems that arise.

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