volume management

[Gergely CZUCZY]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 12:42:29PM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote:
> >>It will be
> >>great to just fix everything in the kernel to handle errors properly,
> >>but good luck with that.
> >That's a worthy goal and something we should be pursuing.  After all,
> >FreeBSD used to be noted for its stability.  I wouldn't call panics a sign
> >of stability..  You're better off invalidating all the geom consumers and
> >leaving the rest of the system up so an admin can try to recover critical
> >data, or so the remaining geom providers can continue to function.
> 
> There's been talk in the past about making the mount read-only instead of a panic in some 
> situations, but I know nothing more than that.
I quite like this idea, but what about updates? I don't know
whether updates require additional space for UFS2 or not, but
I can imagine the opportunity when updates can be done while
there is no more space for allocating new blocks.

Bye,

Gergely Czuczy
mailto: gergely.czuczy at harmless.hu

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