Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 01:26:37 -0400 From: "Kevin P. Neal" <kpneal@pobox.com> To: buhrow@cats.ucsc.edu (Brian Buhrow) Cc: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org>, Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>, James Graham <greywolf@siva.captech.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.org, tech-kern@NetBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VPS mailing list, BSD interest? Message-ID: <1.5.4.32.19961002052637.008e9d0c@mindspring.com>
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At 12:06 PM 10/1/96 -0700, Brian Buhrow wrote: > From my perspective as an administrator of systems which use both types >of virtual disk drivers, I have to say that I like the NetBSD way of >keeping the configuration file in a flat text file much better. Veritos is >powerful, but it doesn't auto-recover from failed disks, and it is very >hard to manage its configuration information precisely because it is stored >on distributed areas of disks which are unreachable by mere mortals living >on FFS filesystems. How about storing the data in a private section of the disk, and being able to export the data into a flat file, human readable? Then also being able to parse the output file and restore it onto the disk? I mean, the mount command on some (all?) systems can generate an fstab. Why not the virtual disk device? -- XCOMM Kevin P. Neal, Sophomore, Comp. Sci. \ kpneal@pobox.com XCOMM "Corrected!" -- Old Amiga tips file \ kpneal@eos.ncsu.edu XCOMM Visit the House of Retrocomputing: / Perm. Email: XCOMM http://www.pobox.com/~kpn/ / kevinneal@bix.com
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