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 -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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