Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 11:43:53 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net> Cc: peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: System crash on "vinum start" Message-ID: <19991001114353.J496@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19990930205439.021a58c0@207.227.119.2>; from Jeffrey J. Mountin on Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 08:54:39PM -0500 References: <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> <19991001105734.F496@freebie.lemis.com> <3.0.3.32.19990930205439.021a58c0@207.227.119.2>
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On Thursday, 30 September 1999 at 20:54:39 -0500, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: > 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. Once we've loaded the kernel, we don't need it again. You can delete the kernel on a running system without any problem. 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-current" in the body of the message
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