>On 15/11/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >I suppose it depends how 'catastrophic' the failture is, but if it's >> >very low level, >> >booting another root probabyl won't help, and if it's too high level, how >> >will >> >you detect it (i.e. you've booted the kernel, but it is buggy). >> >> If it panics (but not too early) or fails to come up properly? > >Detecting 'come up properly' sounds hard >(as in 'turing test hard') to me.
Yep. For one, I don't think you can ever detect this for failures before the root filesystem is mounted read-write. Of course, since Sun is a system's company, that bit can conceivably be solved by changing the ILOM/ALOM to detect those. But for those systems it is less of an issue because they can be removely managed/powercycled/etc. Casper _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
