From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 30 18:59:25 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 3C5D414EA1 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 18:59:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeff-ml@mountin.net) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by peak.mountin.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id UAA28166; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 20:59:11 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jeff-ml@mountin.net) Received: from dial-168.tnt1.rac.cyberlynk.net(209.224.182.168) by peak.mountin.net via smap (V1.3) id sma028164; Thu Sep 30 20:59:03 1999 Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19990930205439.021a58c0@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 20:54:39 -0500 To: Greg Lehey From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Subject: Re: System crash on "vinum start" Cc: peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19991001105734.F496@freebie.lemis.com> References: <3.0.3.32.19990930193723.00936df0@207.227.119.2> <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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 10:57 AM 10/1/99 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >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. Yes, I realized that and donned a pointy hat. Root (/) and OS specific files are of interest, but not as critical to me. There are other allowance one can make for redundancy. Beyond the scope of this discussion. >That's a good idea, I suppose. I'll do that. Done: >http://www.lemis.com/vinum/wishlist.html. Excellent! As for the root issue, #3 looks the most feasible, IMHO, and should eliminate the problems of #2 if the kernel's fs dies (unless it could try another drive) and yet would there not be an issue should the drive that does the bootstrapping die and the system rebooted. Small thing, not Vinum related, but at least things would keep going when a mirrored root fs lost a plex. The "snapshot" feature is interesting as well. Guess the logging changes is not a wish (yet) and is somewhat similar. Thanks, 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