Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 21:46:43 -0600 From: Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: jesse reynolds <jesse@va.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vinum newbie configuration questions Message-ID: <200008090346.e793kh003901@fedde.littleton.co.us> In-Reply-To: <a0432041ab5b41a6bc401@[203.15.106.22]>
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On Wed, 9 Aug 2000 12:08:59 +1000 jesse reynolds wrote:
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| 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?
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Why would you want to mirror swap? Just define swap partitions as slices on
each drive. They don't have to be part of the vinum slices
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| Also, does anyone have any tips on manually creating a backup root
| filesystem that could be manually booted from in case of hardware
| failure on the main root filesystem? I assume there would be issues
| with the devices and where things are mounted etc...
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What I've done in the past for this scenario is first to be sure
that both partitions are realy the same size and then simply use
dd to copy the live partition to the dead one on a periodic basis.
Though it might be quicker to use something like pax since it can
be configured to ignore files that have not changed. Be sure to
think about things like the contents of /etc/fstab and any backup
scripts that you are using.
chris
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