| Title: | DOCUMENT T1.0 |
| Notice: | **New notesfile (DOCUMENT.NOTE) now available (see note 897)** |
| Moderator: | CLOSET::ADLER |
| Created: | Mon Feb 09 1987 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Oct 31 1991 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 897 |
| Total number of notes: | 4397 |
First, a little philosophy:
When the CASEE cluster was initially setup, our forward-thinking system
managers created a bunch of concealed disks, mapping many different
logical devices onto a small number of physical disks.
When physical disks are added to the cluster (or, god forbid, removed),
the logical devices are remapped to the new disk configuration and
nothing else needs to be changed.
Now, the problem:
When the DOCUMENT T1.0-008 installation asked me for a device for the
DOC$ROOT directory tree, I responded with SYS$INFO, which is defined as
follows:
$ DEFINE sys$info /SYSTEM/EXEC/TRANSLATION=(CONCEALED,TERMINAL) -
sunmum$dub1:[sys$info.]
The installation procedure translated the SYS$INFO logical and used
only the device portion, resulting in creation of
SUNMUM$DUB1:[DOC$TOOLS...]
instead of
SYS$INFO:[DOC$TOOLS...] == SUNMUM$DUB1:[SYS$INFO.DOC$TOOLS...]
DOCUMENT installation should honor concealed disk definitions.
-- Ward
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| 619.1 | how come we didn't think of that? | VAXUUM::KOHLBRENNER | Thu Jul 09 1987 10:46 | 20 | |
Looks like a good suggestion, Ward.
And it LOOKS like a simple change, but too much rides on it
for us to make the change before we ship the kit, so it will
have to be in a later release.
I think you could create the [.DOC$TOOLS] subdirectory that
you want, install DOCUMENT onto the same physical disk, and
then simply rename the [doc$tools] top level directory to
the [.DOC$TOOLS] subdirectory. Then you would have to
establish a new definition of the logical name DOC$ROOT so
that it pointed at the dev:[xxx.DOC$TOOLS.] tree:
$ DEF DOC$ROOT dev:[xxx.DOC$TOOLS.]/exec/syst/tran=concealed
If you wanted to do that experiment and report the results,
it would help us here.
thanks, bill
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| 619.2 | We'll wait for DOCUMENT T1.n (where n > 0) | CASEE::CLARK | Ward Clark | Fri Jul 10 1987 10:13 | 13 |
The person who did the BL7 installation on our cluster did go to the
post-installation trouble of moving the [DOCTOOLS] directory where we
wanted it and updated DOC$STARTUP.COM to reflect the change.
However, when I installed BL8, the procedure tripped over the
unexpected definition of DOC$ROOT. I decided to avoid this problem by
leaving the BL8 directory where it landed.
I'll change things back to concealed disks when the DOCUMENT procedure
is ready to handle it. Please include an explicit statement in the
Release Notes when this happens.
-- Ward
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