Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 10:19:16 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net> Cc: peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: System crash on "vinum start" Message-ID: <19991001101916.E496@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19990930182053.0219b760@207.227.119.2>; from Jeffrey J. Mountin on Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 06:20:53PM -0500 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> <99Sep28.125643est.40332@border.alcanet.com.au> <3.0.3.32.19990930182053.0219b760@207.227.119.2>
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On Thursday, 30 September 1999 at 18:20:53 -0500, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: > 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. ;) This is -CURRENT. Expect work in progress. From the commit log: > replaceobject: Add preliminary code. This is not yet complete. > > Add keyword 'hotspare'. > 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. I'm not sure I understand the question. But if I parse it correctly, the answer is "no". 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
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