Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 13:45:55 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: ian j hart <ianjhart@ntlworld.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't save Vinum config: No such file or directory Message-ID: <20040223031555.GM87020@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200402182231.38374.ianjhart@ntlworld.com> References: <20040213130520.GB714@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <20040216110935.GA753@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <20040216231325.GP33797@wantadilla.lemis.com> <200402182231.38374.ianjhart@ntlworld.com>
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--D9sZ58tf58331Q5M Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday, 18 February 2004 at 22:31:38 +0000, ian j hart wrote: > On Monday 16 February 2004 11:13 pm, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> >> It occurs to me that we could easily prevent this kind of problem in >> the future by saving the Vinum configuration at boot time to >> /var/run/vinum.conf.boot or some such. It would obviously make sense >> to keep the previous configuration as well. This should be a pretty >> trivial modification to the startup scripts. > > Haven't followed this too closely, but what if /var is a vinum volume? > /dev/vinum ? Good point. An obvious alternative would be to save it on the root file system. Maybe this isn't a "one size fits all" solution; how about an rc.conf parameter to say where to save to configuration? Greg -- Note: I discard all HTML mail unseen. Finger grog@FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --D9sZ58tf58331Q5M Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAOXBrIubykFB6QiMRAv0JAKCaTXcZ0lSs7bJt8XfENUESfAtP7wCgnw71 K6O+ZegFDGgPv0Fuv2INsbM= =1Mfu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --D9sZ58tf58331Q5M--
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