On Sat, 5 Jan 2008 14:36:37 -0600, Patrick O'Keefe wrote: >On Fri, 4 Jan 2008 22:58:33 -0800, shai hess wrote: > >>... >>Imagine how easy it to return to your old load library in case of error and >>not pray that SMP/E with the APPLY/RESTORE/ACCEPT/RECEIVE/REJECT will work >>fine for you. >>... > >That is a hollow argument. If backing out the maintenance amounts to >replacing a load module (or set of load modules) - an all or nothing event, >then an SMP RESTORE need not have any complications. > There are complications. It's a BAD limitation of SMP/E's RESTORE that it can restore to no level earlier than the last ACCEPT (and often to no level later than that). The otherwise generally inferior VMFMERGE needs no operation comparable to ACCEPT, thus it can VMFRESTORE to any level that hasn't been purged from the DELTA (like SMPPTS) directory.
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