Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 10:57:34 +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: <19991001105734.F496@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19990930193723.00936df0@207.227.119.2>; from Jeffrey J. Mountin on Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 07:37:23PM -0500 References: <3.0.3.32.19990930182053.0219b760@207.227.119.2> <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> <99Oct1.094141est.40344@border.alcanet.com.au> <3.0.3.32.19990930193723.00936df0@207.227.119.2>
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On Thursday, 30 September 1999 at 19:37:23 -0500, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: > At 09:44 AM 10/1/99 +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: >> I was thinking of some `production' code (written by a sister company) >> that I used to provide customer support for. It would regularly core >> dump (but was automatically restarted). After a few years they did >> manage to fix the core dump, but that exposed a memory leak which they >> never did manage to fix (fairly embarrasing in a supposedly >> permanently running process). > > Eeew! Can see your point. Tracking down a sig11 problem in a custom > program right now. Seems to be OS related, but think a bit of work around > the problem code is in order first. > > Oh, the pain of learning. My first project fixing another's code. Or at > least trying. At least it doesn't harm functionality, so has been bugging > me for a while and decided enough is enough. > >> I gather that root support is the most-asked-for feature in Vinum (when >> I asked Greg about it some weeks ago, I got about as far as `when will >> Vinum' before he answered me). As long as recovery works, making it >> nicer to use is (should be) a lower priority. > > This was more directed torwards Greg, but would guess that auto-recovery > would be fairly requested. Growing plexes (any type) would be #1 on my > list, auto-recovery #2, and root #3. You're not typical. But you *can* grow concatenated plexes. You just can't expand UFS to use the space. That's not a Vinum issue, but somebody's working on it. > Best not to bother him about desired features. Would be nice for a > work status/todo list, but then *that* has to be updated. And yet > might reduce questions of the "when will" type. Rather like the > problem page he added. That's a good idea, I suppose. I'll do that. Done: http://www.lemis.com/vinum/wishlist.html. 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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