[H-GEN] partitioning again

[James McPherson]

(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs James McPherson <jmcphers at laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au>)


Robert Brockway writes:
 > (Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Robert Brockway <robert at blake.humbug.org.au>)
 > On Thu, 13 May 1999, James McPherson wrote:
 > > sorry - I wasn't being sufficiently careful in what I was referring to. I was
 > > actually referring to your non-blake machines. As for enterprise/commercial
 > Ah ok.  All the other boxen either have too little HD space to warrant it
 > or aren't used enough to warrant the time :) but I agree a proper
 > partitoning scheme has many advantages such as you mention.
 > 
 > > environments, well, how you set them up depends on what your needs are. A
 > > small site might get away with only two disks - but not if they're running a
 > > dbms such as oracle, ingres, db2 or sybase because the requirements for
 > > logfiles and continual disk access would mean that general access would be
 > > pretty poor.
 > > 
 > > I'd also like to see the savecore facility but newgroup archives lead me to
 > > believe that that is unlikely even though it would be _very_ useful.
 > 
 > savecore?  As in saving an image of the running system on disk for later
 > restorartion?  I thought most laptops,etc had it in h/w.


no, savecore as in 

the system has crashed, dump a memory image to tmpfs, and on reboot check for
it and save in /var/crash/`uname -n`.

that sorta thing ;) Very useful for debugging persistent crash problems (which
Craig Armour would no doubt like to have at the moment!)


James C. McPherson
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