From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 22 19:15:59 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B85D16A4CE for ; Sun, 22 Feb 2004 19:15:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [203.10.76.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F9A543D1F for ; Sun, 22 Feb 2004 19:15:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (blackwater.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 610BC2BD45 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2004 14:15:57 +1100 (EST) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 1E26D51212; Mon, 23 Feb 2004 13:45:55 +1030 (CST) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 13:45:55 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: ian j hart Message-ID: <20040223031555.GM87020@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20040213130520.GB714@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <20040216110935.GA753@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <20040216231325.GP33797@wantadilla.lemis.com> <200402182231.38374.ianjhart@ntlworld.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="D9sZ58tf58331Q5M" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200402182231.38374.ianjhart@ntlworld.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't save Vinum config: No such file or directory X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 03:15:59 -0000 --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--