[Info-vax] NEW HBVS question

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <qnt564$1ad1$3 at gioia.aioe.org>,
helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de (Phillip Helbig (undress to reply))
writes: 

> > >Yes, I could have missed a minicopy.  I thought that if I shut down the 
> > >entire cluster (properly or not), then the bitmaps used by minicopy 
> > >would disappear, since they are only in RAM.  Or are they written to 
> > >disk (at least in case of a proper shutdown)?
> > 
> > It's kind of hard to figure out from what you have posted. I suggest you troll
> > through the OPERATOR.LOGs to see what shadowing has been up to since this
> > instance of the cluster was created.
> > 
> > As goofy as shadowing can be at times, one thing I've never seen it get wrong
> > is not doing copies/merges when it should. We'd know about that very quickly 
> > since getting that wrong will show up rapidly as bizarrely corrupted data.
> > 
> > What do SHOW SHADOW and SHOW DEVICE say?
> 
> Back from holiday, cluster still OK with the new BA356 installed just 
> before leaving.
> 
> As you say, SHADOWING rarely if ever gets it wrong.  Perhaps the 
> minicopies on these relatively small disks were so quick that I didn't 
> notice them.  I'll check the logs.

Yes, it was just too quick, just a few seconds.