David Freeman wrote:
 
> I complained about this at Interex.  DEC had mirroring of the system
> "disk" (VMS) back in 1987.  HP's answer was that they have a lack of
> I/O engineers and don't think that its worth the engineers time to work on
                                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> this.   No, I'm not joking.
 
I don't doubt that mirroring the system volume set offers interesting
technical challenges, but of the multiple volumesets I juggle, MPEXL_SYSTEM
is the one I want protected the most.  Data on the user volumesets (at least
Image and AllBase) can be recovered from logs and restores.
 
And if one user volume set dies, then other user keep running.  If MPEXL_
dies, then all my users die with it.  This is a significant business
related oversight on HPs part.
 
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