From owner-freebsd-current Mon Sep 27 20:24:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E9BA14D70 for ; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 20:24:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id MAA95394; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 12:54:13 +0930 (CST) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 12:54:13 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: System crash on "vinum start" Message-ID: <19990928125412.I94452@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990925104024.B54407@freebie.lemis.com> <199909271705.NAA43302@concours.pc.sas.com> <3.0.3.32.19990927153730.0204c420@207.227.119.2> <19990928084130.L46202@freebie.lemis.com> <99Sep28.125643est.40332@border.alcanet.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <99Sep28.125643est.40332@border.alcanet.com.au>; from Peter Jeremy on Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 12:59:34PM +1000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF 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-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 28 September 1999 at 12:59:34 +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 09:11:31AM +1000, Greg Lehey wrote: >> Good software shouldn't panic. > I wish _I_ could convince some people of this :-(. > >>> Most certainly is. Could use the functionality to add to a plex's size for >>> striped or RAID5, but a bit of planning cures that. 8-) >> >> It's all in the pipeline. But first we need Vinum on the root file >> system. > And whilst we're discussing wish-lists... After several fights with > Digital/Compaq's Logical Storage Manager, it would be _very_ nice if > recovery could be done at the physical disk level (ie, "I've just > replaced da3 - autorecover all vinum volumes that used that disk"), > rather than having to recover each logical volume. It would also be > nice if you could recover mirrored root/swap without needing to > unmirror and re-mirror them. Yup, it's all on the way. I've just found the second-last bug in Vinum, so now I'll have time to do that sort of thing :-) 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-current" in the body of the message