Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 11:57:41 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@auss2.alcatel.com.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Volume managers (was: Separate boot partition?) Message-ID: <19990409115741.H2142@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <99Apr9.082856est.40334@border.alcanet.com.au>; from Peter Jeremy on Fri, Apr 09, 1999 at 08:41:53AM %2B1000 References: <99Apr9.082856est.40334@border.alcanet.com.au>
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On Friday, 9 April 1999 at 8:41:53 +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > Remy Nonnenmacher <remy@synx.com> wrote: >> Think about it : A set of SCA, hot-pluggable disks. Every fs movable, >> resizable (up/down), every disk content movable from/to every other >> one.... the perfect power-on once, run till-end-of-universe server. > > Not quite. The [amc]time stamps in the inode run out in 2038. This > was discussed at length here last year (without any satisfactory > solution). (For one possible solution, check out RFC2550). Not a worry. In the meantime an upwards-compatible file system will be created, and you can copy the stuff across. The real problem is updating the kernel without rebooting. It would require some loosely-coupled MP system to achieve. 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-hackers" in the body of the message
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