Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 09:46:13 -0400 From: Mark Bucciarelli <mark@gaiahost.coop> To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: swap and gmirror Message-ID: <200505090946.13708.mark@gaiahost.coop>
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I have two drives where the first slice is mirrored using gmirror. Last night I thought I was being very clever by creating a swap slice on each drive and not mirroring those. Better performance as swap is distributed across two disks and faster writes because swap is not mirrored. Also, I saw This morning, I started having second thoughts. Isn't there a chance that if a disk dies, some running process may lose the data it has swapped to disk. That, I imagine, would be a very bad thing. If so, is there any safe way to configure swap so it is not mirrored? Regards, Mark
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