Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 13:20:59 +0200 (CEST) From: "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de> To: aw1@stade.co.uk Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [kern/60555] vinum volume as a swap device not possible onFreeBSD 5.2.1 Message-ID: <200405161120.i4GBKxOd003092@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> In-Reply-To: <20040515042202.B68780@titus.hanley.stade.co.uk>
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Hello! Adrian Wontroba wrote: > 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 ? > 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. I'm running 5.2.1 systems with a vinum mirrored swap this way: - prepare a vinum mirrored drive - create an UFS filesystem on it - create a large file of ~90% of the file systems size - swap to that There is a performance penalty when swapping to plain files instead of a dedicated disk, but IMHO a properly sized system should rarely swap at all. HTH, Patrick -- punkt.de GmbH Internet - Dienstleistungen - Beratung Vorholzstr. 25 Tel. 0721 9109 -0 Fax: -100 76137 Karlsruhe http://punkt.de
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