[Info-vax] automatic shadow copy?

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <methkf$qqp$1 at news.kjsl.com>, helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de
(Phillip Helbig (undress to reply)) writes: 

> You boot from a physical disk.  Soon after, the other member, if found, 
> is added.  You can list all members in BOOTDEF_DEV, so it will try all 
> until one is found.

I realize this might be unclear to some.  One always boots from a single 
disk.  If this disk was part of a shadow set at shutdown (and the system 
parameters weren't changed in this respect), then at boot the system 
will find the other member(s) or time out if they aren't visible quickly 
enough (and continue without them).  Thus, no need to add members in a 
startup procedure.  One always boots from a single disk, but can specify 
more than one in BOOTDEF_DEV.  This has nothing to do with shadowing per 
se, but one could specify more than one member so if one is not 
available, it would try the next one.