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
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