From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 31 17:40:11 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B178E16A407 for ; Sun, 31 Dec 2006 17:40:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michael.knoll@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.189]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4441913C442 for ; Sun, 31 Dec 2006 17:40:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michael.knoll@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id x37so6202860nfc for ; Sun, 31 Dec 2006 09:40:10 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=BR3ilhcln8jchNXKCcnG+vZt20yPrSOgXpDIscngPyK2SoZSLZKVSGSzsxX8yNVpHenVoIXYBftrTSFRBgDeee+gvP7siwKmXI+32JVYGDx3W0aFWjCIUK4Gxhlar0eGIlWO1B3I1WnaszesRwhmVcGWjridt5TXeON3CEY+uIU= Received: by 10.78.171.13 with SMTP id t13mr1652063hue.1167585208488; Sun, 31 Dec 2006 09:13:28 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.78.100.6 with HTTP; Sun, 31 Dec 2006 09:13:28 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <975053160612310913t3dadcc02yfac58f6fbf0a49df@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 12:13:28 -0500 From: "Michael Knoll" To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Recommended gmirror solution with swap? X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 17:40:11 -0000 I am planning on converting my FreeBSD machine to use gmirror on two 40gig drives. Reading the handbook and other sites with instructions on configuring gmirror, I notice they all disable swap. Is this acceptable? Is it expected swap be on another drive? If so, is there a solution which I can keep the swap on the mirror. as I don't have another drive? Thanks, Mike