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Date:      Wed, 9 Aug 2000 14:11:49 +1000
From:      jesse reynolds <jesse@va.com.au>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: vinum newbie configuration questions
Message-ID:  <a04320411b5b68a56a556@[172.54.6.185]>
In-Reply-To: <20000809133529.F14606@wantadilla.lemis.com>
References:  <a0432041ab5b41a6bc401@[203.15.106.22]> <200008090346.e793kh003901@fedde.littleton.co.us> <20000809133529.F14606@wantadilla.lemis.com>

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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?
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