Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 04:46:44 -0600 From: "Larry Rosenman" <ler@lerctr.org> To: "'Ruslan Ermilov'" <ru@FreeBSD.org>, "'Dmitry Morozovsky'" <marck@rinet.ru> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, 'Pawel Jakub Dawidek' <pjd@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: cvs commit: src/sys/geom/mirror g_mirror.c Message-ID: <022c01c64366$c8638b90$65c8a8c0@lerctr.org> In-Reply-To: <20060309091300.GN54826@ip.net.ua>
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Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 12:56:07PM +0300, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: >> On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: >> >>> Modified files: >>> sys/geom/mirror g_mirror.c >>> Log: >>> Allow to dump kernel to gmirror providers. >>> Some conditions have to be met to make it work properly. This >>> will be described in the manual page. >> >> Thanks a lot! So I save one partition (d) I'd usually dedicated for >> crashdumps only when I use gmirror from now on. >> > YMMV of course, but at work we prefer to mirror slices not disks. > This way it's much more flexible -- you can have mirrored root, > unmirrored swap, stripped+mirrored data, etc. > > > Cheers, I was having issues where mirroring slices wouldn't always boot (earlier RELENG_6). Since the box is remote, it was just easier to mirror the disks. I'm waiting with baited breath for this to make it to RELENG_6 so I can see how it deals. LER -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 512-248-2683 E-Mail: ler@lerctr.org US Mail: 430 Valona Loop, Round Rock, TX 78681-3683 US
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