Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 14:01:00 +1000 From: jesse reynolds <jesse@va.com.au> To: Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vinum newbie configuration questions Message-ID: <a0432040eb5b68754f085@[172.54.6.185]> In-Reply-To: <200008090346.e793kh003901@fedde.littleton.co.us> References: <200008090346.e793kh003901@fedde.littleton.co.us>
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At 21:46 -0600 8/8/00, 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? Just define swap partitions as slices on >each drive. They don't have to be part of the vinum slices Why? No idea. I've just seen some people mirror swap with Disk Suite and did wonder myself. When you say 'slices' do you mean freebsd slices, or dos partitions? Do you put a vinum slice on a freebsd slice? > +------------------ > | 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... > +------------------ > >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. Great, thanks Chris. Cheers Jesse -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Jesse Reynolds jesse (at) va.com.au desk: +61 2 8255 2561 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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