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Date:      Thu, 9 Mar 2006 20:01:25 +0300 (MSK)
From:      Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>
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:  <20060309195433.O69649@woozle.rinet.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20060309091410.GO54826@ip.net.ua>
References:  <200603080827.k288RXLb076843@repoman.freebsd.org> <20060308125450.I68519@woozle.rinet.ru> <20060309091300.GN54826@ip.net.ua> <20060309091410.GO54826@ip.net.ua>

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On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:

RE> > YMMV of course, but at work we prefer to mirror slices not disks.
RE>                                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
RE> > This way it's much more flexible -- you can have mirrored root,
RE> > unmirrored swap, stripped+mirrored data, etc.
RE> > 
RE> Err, I meant "mirror partitions" of course.  :-)

So do I. Hence, in standard mirror situation I have /dev/mirror/m0a from 
ad4a+ad6a for root, /dev/mirror/m0b from ad4b+ad6b for swap etc.

Troubles was with crashdumps, so earlier I'd reserve ad4d without file system 
to dump to. Now it should be a bit simplier.

To pjd@: idea from wild space: if one have to replace faulted disk he could 
have serious performance problems with syncing more than one gmirror/graid3 at 
a time. Maybe introduce a mechanism to suspend one or more sync process(es) 
when other are in progress? Or even max concurrency sync level?

Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
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