From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 8 21:13:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from va.com.au (va.com.au [203.15.106.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55BB437B9C4 for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 21:13:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jesse@va.com.au) Received: from [172.54.6.185] (203.108.23.91) by va.com.au with ESMTP (Eudora Internet Mail Server 2.2); Wed, 9 Aug 2000 13:43:17 +0930 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: jesse@mail.va.com.au Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20000809133529.F14606@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200008090346.e793kh003901@fedde.littleton.co.us> <20000809133529.F14606@wantadilla.lemis.com> Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 14:11:49 +1000 To: Greg Lehey , Chris Fedde From: jesse reynolds Subject: Re: vinum newbie configuration questions Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 13:35 +0930 9/8/00, Greg Lehey wrote: >On Tuesday, 8 August 2000 at 21:46:43 -0600, Chris Fedde wrote: >> On Wed, 9 Aug 2000 12:08:59 +1000 jesse reynolds wrote: >> +------------------ >>> Swap question: how does vinum support swap? Is swap just another >>> vinum volume? And should swap be mirrored? Or should I have two >>> unmirrored swap areas, one on each disk? >> +------------------ >> >> Why would you want to mirror swap? > >For the same reason you might want to mirror anything else. In case >the drive fails. You will almost invariably crash a system if you >lose swap. But given / can't be mirrored, there's probably no point right? -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Jesse Reynolds jesse (at) va.com.au desk: +61 2 8255 2561 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message