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Date:      Wed, 9 Aug 2000 13:47:16 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        jesse reynolds <jesse@va.com.au>
Cc:        Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: vinum newbie configuration questions
Message-ID:  <20000809134715.G14606@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <a04320411b5b68a56a556@[172.54.6.185]>; from jesse@va.com.au on Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 02:11:49PM %2B1000
References:  <a0432041ab5b41a6bc401@[203.15.106.22]> <200008090346.e793kh003901@fedde.littleton.co.us> <20000809133529.F14606@wantadilla.lemis.com> <a04320411b5b68a56a556@[172.54.6.185]>

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On Wednesday,  9 August 2000 at 14:11:49 +1000, jesse reynolds wrote:
> At 13:35 +0930 9/8/00, Greg Lehey wrote:
>> On Tuesday,  8 August 2000 at 21:46:43 -0600, Chris Fedde wrote:
>>>  On Wed, 9 Aug 2000 12:08:59 +1000  jesse reynolds wrote:
>>>   +------------------
>>>>  Swap question: how does vinum support swap? Is swap just another
>>>>  vinum volume? And should swap be mirrored? Or should I have two
>>>>  unmirrored swap areas, one on each disk?
>>>   +------------------
>>>
>>>  Why would you want to mirror swap?
>>
>> For the same reason you might want to mirror anything else.  In case
>> the drive fails.  You will almost invariably crash a system if you
>> lose swap.
>
> But given / can't be mirrored, there's probably no point right?

I don't see any connection.  If you lose a drive with swap on it, but
not the root disk, you'll crash if you don't have it mirrored.

Greg
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