Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1995 09:36:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Douglas Ambrisko <ambrisko@tcs.com> To: gpalmer@freefall.cdrom.com (Gary Palmer) Cc: rcarter@geli.com, davidg@Root.COM, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: wcarchive down Message-ID: <199504201636.JAA05934@cozumel.tcs.com> In-Reply-To: <19451.798358087@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Gary Palmer" at Apr 19, 95 11:08:07 pm
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Gary Palmer writes:
|
| In message <199504200518.WAA03907@geli.clusternet>, "Russell L. Carter" writes:
| >This is a helluva commitment to FreeBSD, might be messy to begin with but
| >will likely root out many of those hard to find bugs right quick, with long
| >term benefits for the community.
|
| And in the meantime, every time wcarchive goes down, Walnut Creek's name
| get's slightly muddier. We were origionally waiting for 2.1 to come out, and
| be properly tested, etc, etc, before even thinking of touching wcarchive,
| but it spamming it's /dev/*sd* entries well enough so that we can't even
| re-mount the root filesystem read-write kinda forced our hands.
|
| Yes, it'll force a lot of obscure bugs into the open, but debugging wcarchive
| isn't easy as we don't normally have any console access...
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Gee, sounds like time to use the new serial console mode. I've been using it
on my server and it works great. I have it setup so I can tip into it to
grab the console etc, as such it now lives in my closet without a monitor or
keyboard. Another thing you can use DTR from you tip host to trigger a hard
reset to it incase you need to reset it remotely. To do this it just requires
a diode and maybe a couple of resistors. It works great. This also makes
for a great debugging environment (build your kernel on your fast work-station,
boot the kernel from the network and test it through the serial console) Now
you can work from anywhere.
Doug A.
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