Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 18:20:53 -0500 From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net> To: peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: System crash on "vinum start" Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19990930182053.0219b760@207.227.119.2> In-Reply-To: <99Sep28.125643est.40332@border.alcanet.com.au> References: <19990928084130.L46202@freebie.lemis.com> <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>
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At 12:59 PM 9/28/99 +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 :-(. It can be difficult to consider what a user can do and tends to bloat the code a bit. Frustrates my instructors, since it very much a habit when I script and carried over to C. 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. Haven't looked at the code for it, but "hotspare" appeared for the drive configuration recently. Bit a tease really. No offense to Greg of course. ;) Speaking of, why is (would) root filesystem support necessary for non root/swap automagical recovery. Or will this be part of other to-be-implemented functionalities. Jeff Mountin - jeff@mountin.net Systems/Network Administrator FreeBSD - the power to serve '86 Yamaha MaxiumX (not FBSD powered) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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