From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 14 20:22:08 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E98416A4CE for ; Fri, 14 May 2004 20:22:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lon-mail-6.gradwell.net (lon-mail-6.gradwell.net [193.111.201.132]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D509B43D46 for ; Fri, 14 May 2004 20:22:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from aw1@stade.co.uk) Received: (qmail 37898 invoked from network); 15 May 2004 03:22:05 -0000 Received: from alsager-adsl.stade.co.uk (HELO access2.hanley.stade.co.uk) (81.6.222.119) by lon-mail-6.gradwell.net with SMTP; 15 May 2004 03:22:05 -0000 Received: from titus.hanley.stade.co.uk (titus [192.168.1.5]) i4F3M4OE028981 for ; Sat, 15 May 2004 04:22:04 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from aw1@titus.hanley.stade.co.uk) Received: from titus.hanley.stade.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) i4F3M3Gw069594 for ; Sat, 15 May 2004 04:22:03 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from aw1@titus.hanley.stade.co.uk) Received: (from aw1@localhost) by titus.hanley.stade.co.uk (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i4F3M3CH069593 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Sat, 15 May 2004 04:22:03 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from aw1) Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 04:22:02 +0100 From: Adrian Wontroba To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040515042202.B68780@titus.hanley.stade.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Adrian Wontroba , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from conrad.burger@swistgroup.com on Sat, May 15, 2004 at 03:36:11AM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.10-PRERELEASE Organization: Oh dear, I've joined one again. Subject: Re: [kern/60555] vinum volume as a swap device not possible on FreeBSD 5.2.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: aw1@stade.co.uk List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 03:22:08 -0000 On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 03:36:11AM +0200, Conrad Burger wrote: > I am trying to mirror a servers swap partition using vinum, but it > doesn't seem to be possible in FreeBSD 5.2.1. > Just need to know if I should downgrade to 5.1 ? There is a lengthy thread about this in -current (which I sometimes read, but don't run). The situation seems to be: * swap is supported by geom in later 5.* releases. * Other types of disk usage are soon to be moved to geom. So vinum soon won't work for ufs either. * Vinum does not yet support geom, but should in due course. * No release 5.* release will be called "production" until it has a working software mirror system and upgrade path. Looks like downgrading to 5.1 (or even the current production release (4.9, soon to be 4.10)), is your best short-term option. Or do without mirrored swap. -- Adrian Wontroba The blood on the leading edge is often your own