Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 17:44:06 +0200 From: Andrea Venturoli <ml.diespammer@netfence.it> To: bob self <bobself@charter.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: swap file using gmirror? Message-ID: <42FB7246.9090908@netfence.it> In-Reply-To: <42FB4312.7040201@charter.net> References: <42FB4312.7040201@charter.net>
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bob self wrote: > I'm running 5.4 RELEASE. I have two identical hard drives. I installed > FreeBSD on the first drive and then > turned on gmirror. The 2nd drive sync'd in about 3 hours. I did create a > swap partition, but part of the > procedure that I found to start gmirror adds > > swapoff="YES"' to /etc/rc.conf > > Is that the right thing to do? Should gmirror run without swap? You are interpreting it incorrectly. If you put your swap partition on a gmirror drive, your swap partition will benefit from RAID 1. swapoff="YES" only allows for a clean shutdown, so that gmirror won't rebuild everything on next boot. bye av.
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