Doug Werth wrote:
>
> Ken Sletten writes:
>
> > Without a programmatic SHUTDOWN feature, I agree that
> > at some point the resync time becomes hard to swallow.....
>
> <speculation>
>
> I think that if you VSCLOSE the mirrored volume set prior to the =SHUTDOWN
> then it may not matter whether or not the system reaches SHUT 6 because the
> volume set is not mounted at the time of shutdown. If my speculation is true
> the VSCLOSE will perform all synchronization steps and flag the volume set
> as 'good' just as the shutdown process would.
>
> </speculation>

Well, a VSCLOSE;NOW might do it but abort a lot of people using the
volume set.  And that's a console command that you would have to
finagle a way to execute.  But agreed, it would flush XM and shut the
volume set cleanly.

Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]>