On Thursday, 30 September 1999 at 18:20:53 -0500, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote:
> At 12:59 PM 9/28/99 +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 09:11:31AM +1000, Greg Lehey wrote:
>>> Good software shouldn't panic.
>>
>> I wish _I_ could convince some people of this :-(.
>
> It can be difficult to consider what a user can do and tends to bloat the
> code a bit. Frustrates my instructors, since it very much a habit when I
> script and carried over to C. 8-)
>
>>> It's all in the pipeline. But first we need Vinum on the root file
>>> system.
>> And whilst we're discussing wish-lists... After several fights with
>> Digital/Compaq's Logical Storage Manager, it would be _very_ nice if
>> recovery could be done at the physical disk level (ie, "I've just
>> replaced da3 - autorecover all vinum volumes that used that disk"),
>> rather than having to recover each logical volume. It would also be
>> nice if you could recover mirrored root/swap without needing to
>> unmirror and re-mirror them.
>
> Haven't looked at the code for it, but "hotspare" appeared for the drive
> configuration recently. Bit a tease really.
>
> No offense to Greg of course. ;)
This is -CURRENT. Expect work in progress. From the commit log:
> replaceobject: Add preliminary code. This is not yet complete.
>
> Add keyword 'hotspare'.
> Speaking of, why is (would) root filesystem support necessary for non
> root/swap automagical recovery. Or will this be part of other
> to-be-implemented functionalities.
I'm not sure I understand the question. But if I parse it correctly,
the answer is "no".
Greg
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