From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 30 16:26:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from peak.mountin.net (peak.mountin.net [207.227.119.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C08614A0D for ; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 16:26:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeff-ml@mountin.net) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by peak.mountin.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id SAA26998; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 18:25:20 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jeff-ml@mountin.net) Received: from dial-120.tnt1.rac.cyberlynk.net(209.224.182.120) by peak.mountin.net via smap (V1.3) id sma026996; Thu Sep 30 18:25:09 1999 Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19990930182053.0219b760@207.227.119.2> X-Sender: jeff-ml@207.227.119.2 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 18:20:53 -0500 To: peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Subject: Re: System crash on "vinum start" Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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