Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 01:26:25 +0200 From: Lars Kristiansen <lars@adventuras.no> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I need further HDD advice before submitting order. Message-ID: <C10D9D5CC51075399CAD2FF9@cm-84.118.177.125.chello.no> In-Reply-To: <4282879F.3010104@donnacha.com> References: <200505112057.j4BKv20h011968@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <4282879F.3010104@donnacha.com>
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> Jerry McAllister wrote: > > One small modification, as someone noted, if you make a vinum or > mirror, > > you will probably not want the chunk of swap to be on the front of > > the second drive. So, you can make it last without too much > difficult. > > Chuck Swiger wrote: > > If you do want to mirror the boot disk, you want the first partition to > > be bootable and resemble the first disk, which means you do not want to > > put swap first on the 200GB drive. Hi, just a comment on one of the issues: For what its worth, I have two identical disks mirrored with gvinum, and where swap is first on the disk. As an example, here is bsdlabel-output for one: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 2097152 2097417 4.2BSD 0 0 0 b: 2097152 0 swap c: 78172227 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, don't edit d: 76075075 2097152 vinum Some of this is described in in the vinum section of The Handbook. Sorry but I cannot remember the details when installing, so I will refrain from giving detailed advice. This setup has worked well at least for me; the system can boot from either disk in case of a diskfault. It does of course not cover a failed update attempt or a quick configuration change gone bad. So I am going to try that /altroot advice too. -- Med vennlig hilsen Lars Kristiansen A D V E N T U R A S Tlf: 22 20 59 90 Fax: 22 20 59 91 lars@adventuras.no http://www.adventuras.no
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