From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 19 22:52:02 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33AA916A41F for ; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 22:52:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@walter.transip.nl) Received: from relay1.transip.nl (relay1.transip.nl [80.69.67.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF64A43D66 for ; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 22:52:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@walter.transip.nl) Received: from quark.lfms.nl (quark.lfms.nl [81.171.100.4]) by relay1.transip.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 239EB3C0A45 for ; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 23:52:01 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by quark.lfms.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75707889163 for ; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 23:51:58 +0100 (CET) Received: from epia.dt.lfms.nl (epia.tun.lfms.nl [172.20.4.1]) by quark.lfms.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A3A5889164 for ; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 23:51:49 +0100 (CET) Received: from avalon.dt.lfms.nl (avalon.dt.lfms.nl [172.19.6.1]) by epia.dt.lfms.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 747C050BF9 for ; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 23:51:54 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 23:53:24 +0100 From: Walter Hop X-Mailer: The Bat! (v3.62.14) Professional X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1926276358.20051219235324@lifeforms.nl> To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: quark.lfms.nl (amavisd-new/ClamAV/SpamAssassin) Subject: dumpon on a gmirror system 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: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 22:52:02 -0000 Hello all, I hope this is the right mailinglist. One of our machines running gmirror has become unstable and seems to panic at times. I would like to enable crash dumps which requires dumping to a swap partition. My problem is: all the partitions are gmirror-ed, and gmirror partitions can't be used with dumpon because GEOM is already down at the time of dumping. Someone on a mailinglist had suggested to dump to one of the gmirror components directly (/dev/ad4s1b in my case). This would bring the disks out of sync, although it wouldn't be critical if dumping works exactly as planned. Nevertheless, it would be devastating if I'd ruin the mirror set. Is this practice recommended? I also don't seem to have an entry for ad4s1b in /dev, is there a way to get around this? How do people using gmirror exclusively handle the problem of saving crash dumps? Any help would be appreciated! Kind regards, Walter Hop Transip BV -- Dieses Schreiben wurde mit Hilfe einer Datenverarbeitungsanlage erstellt und bedarf daher keiner Unterschrift.