Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 15:34:31 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: jesse reynolds <jesse@va.com.au> Cc: Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vinum newbie configuration questions Message-ID: <20000809153431.K14606@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <a04320413b5b697019f31@[172.54.6.185]>; from jesse@va.com.au on Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 03:06:46PM %2B1000 References: <a0432041ab5b41a6bc401@[203.15.106.22]> <200008090346.e793kh003901@fedde.littleton.co.us> <20000809133529.F14606@wantadilla.lemis.com> <a04320411b5b68a56a556@[172.54.6.185]> <20000809134715.G14606@wantadilla.lemis.com> <a04320412b5b68dd176c1@[172.54.6.185]> <20000809143318.H14606@wantadilla.lemis.com> <a04320413b5b697019f31@[172.54.6.185]>
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On Wednesday, 9 August 2000 at 15:06:46 +1000, jesse reynolds wrote: > At 14:33 +0930 9/8/00, Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Wednesday, 9 August 2000 at 14:27:12 +1000, jesse reynolds wrote: >>> At 13:47 +0930 9/8/00, Greg Lehey wrote: >>>> On Wednesday, 9 August 2000 at 14:11:49 +1000, jesse reynolds wrote: >>>>> 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? >>>> >>>> I don't see any connection. If you lose a drive with swap on it, but >>>> not the root disk, you'll crash if you don't have it mirrored. >>> >>> Okay. So what sort of vinum entity do you put slash onto? Exactly the >>> same sort of vinum volume that you'd mount a filesystem on? >> >> You should only put file systems on volumes, but you can't put / on a >> volume. That's exactly the issue: it's not that it can't be mirrored, >> it just can't be a Vinum volume yet. > > Darn it, sorry! I meant 'swap' not 'slash' (!). So, trying that question again: > > what sort of vinum entity do you put *swap* onto? A volume. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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