[rescue] NT. MAKES. ME. SICK.

[Devin L. Ganger]

On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 12:01:08AM -0400, Gil Young wrote:
 
> Now riddle me this, should a supposed enterprise system behave in this
> manner:
 
> 1) Error log being written to a few times a minute, one line per error, same
> error over and over and over.

If some subsystem is trying to connect to that volume, on behalf of some
piece of software in the system, damn right it should.

> 2) A missing volume (purely data volume, not OS related whatsoever) is the
> cause of the continuous stream of errors.

If some subsystem is trying to connect to that volume, on behalf of some
piece of software in the system, damn right it should.

> 3) A registry hack as the proposed solution!! And one that does not work,
> BTW.

Pre-supposes that the registry isn't a reasonable solution to the problem
of keeping centralized configuration information.  You may not like it,
but it does work.

Now, as to the specific hack in question not working -- it happens.  Just
like having some newsgroup guru give you a solution to try that doesn't
work, or calling Sun support and having them tell you something that isn't
the fix for the problem.

> 4) A disk manager that insists it knows better than you what needs to be
> done, and thus refuses to let you get rid of the volumes.

It won't let you remove the volumes because there is some subsystem that
is still convinced that they are there.  Find the offending subsystem and
fix it.

> I have admined and managed NT systems alongside UNIX  for about 3 years now,
> coming from a huge UNIX background.  I still do both, mainly UNIX, and I am
> not a cert'ed paper jock, I earned my keep cutting my teeth through
> thousands of all nighters, code hacks, kernel patches, etc....

Compare what NT, in its -- what, 10 years now? lifetime, is capable of now
as compared to what Unix was in its first 10 years.

-- 
Devin L. Ganger <devin at thecabal.org>
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