Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2007 17:08:29 +1030 From: Alastair Watts <awatts@pett.com.au> To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommended gmirror solution with swap? Message-ID: <4598AC65.3080902@pett.com.au> In-Reply-To: <975053160612310913t3dadcc02yfac58f6fbf0a49df@mail.gmail.com> References: <975053160612310913t3dadcc02yfac58f6fbf0a49df@mail.gmail.com>
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Michael Knoll wrote:
> 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?
I'm running the following setup:
> gmirror status
Name Status Components
mirror/gm0 COMPLETE ad0
ad2
> swapinfo
Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity
/dev/mirror/gm0s1b 1048576 784 1048576 0%
> mount
/dev/mirror/gm0s1a on / (ufs, local)
devfs on /dev (devfs, local)
/dev/mirror/gm0s1d on /tmp (ufs, local, soft-updates)
/dev/mirror/gm0s1e on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates)
devfs on /usr/var/named/dev (devfs, local)
Can someone confirm if this is not what should be done? It has appeared
to work fine (having swap mirrored is a good thing from a keeping the
system alive point of view), and I would be interested to hear why it
shouldn't be done.
Cheers,
Al
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