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Date:      Wed, 29 Sep 1999 17:55:35 +0200
From:      Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>
To:        David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca>
Cc:        David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: vinum experiences (not as documented, at least).
Message-ID:  <v0420552ab417e67ead15@[195.238.21.204]>
In-Reply-To: <14322.13607.806478.552668@trooper.velocet.ca>
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At 11:49 AM -0400 1999/9/29, David Gilbert wrote:

> Well... firstly, the design of the system was to put everything (even
> swap) on the RAID drive.  The root is outside, of course... and this
> took some doing, but that's how the system is currently configured.
> I'm not confident that dumping to the raid-swap would be correct.

	Hmm.  Since crash dumps are written by a process that I do not 
believe is vinum aware, I'd be willing to bet that they won't 
properly be written.  Even if that did work, I'm not sure where the 
crash dump recovery process is fired up, but I'd be willing to guess 
that it's before vinum gets started, so you'd have to also make some 
modifications there.

> I may be able to find another drive to dump to, but that will take
> several days.

	Swap and dump is not something that I would tend to be inclined 
to put on vinum.  At least not until we can get to the point where we 
can put all filesystems under vinum, including the root filesystem.

-- 
   These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy
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