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Date:      Thu, 19 Jan 2006 06:19:12 -0600
From:      "Larry Rosenman" <ler@lerctr.org>
To:        "'Christoph Schug'" <chris+freebsd-stable@schug.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: Gmirror'd SWAP: no dump?
Message-ID:  <00c301c61cf2$8e9a7b70$68c8a8c0@lerctr.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060119121602.GC19305@voodoo.schug.net>

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Christoph Schug wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2006, Larry Rosenman wrote:
> 
>> All the HOWTO's I've seen have the entire disk mirrored, including
>> all the pieces.
> 
> See [1] how to setup a GEOM on a slice basis. You only have to skip
> swap and mind the correct /etc/fstab entry. From my experience, it is
> best to hardcode all providers using '-h' at all gmirror insert
> operations for a slice based setup.   
> 
> [1] http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/
> 
> Hope this helps
> -cs

Would the lack of -h cause gmirror to hang at startup?  I'd see the
Gmirror code come up, and then the machine would hang.

In this kind of setup, I still saw the 'b' partition mirrored. (since I
basically
Only have da0s1/da1s1).



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