Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 08:37:00 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>, Darryl Okahata <darrylo@sr.hp.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Vinum questions? Message-ID: <19990316083700.D429@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19990315141839.017509@relay.skynet.be>; from Brad Knowles on Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 02:18:39PM %2B0100 References: <19990313110707.L429@lemis.com> <19990315141839.017509@relay.skynet.be>
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On Monday, 15 March 1999 at 14:18:39 +0100, Brad Knowles wrote: > On Sat, Mar 13, 1999, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> wrote: > >> Basically, you only need "resetconfig" when you have Vinum drives >> which have had a different name before. This is a rather primitive >> attempt to stop you shooting yourself in the foot, but I think I'm >> going to have to improve on it. > > And I've named them different things several times over, in part > because there was old configuration information there (from previous > runs) and I couldn't be sure what was just left over cruft and what was > problems caused by the most recent attempt to configure. It would be > nice if there was an easy way to get vinum to forget all previous > configuration information without having to jump through too many hoops. That's exactly what resetconfig is for. You mean having to type in NO FUTURE? I could drag out a lot of war stories about how large OLTP shops managed to accidentally trash their database with this sort of command. One major stock exchange was off the air for a week as a result, for example. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html 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-questions" in the body of the message
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