Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 14:27:12 +1000 From: jesse reynolds <jesse@va.com.au> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vinum newbie configuration questions Message-ID: <a04320412b5b68dd176c1@[172.54.6.185]> In-Reply-To: <20000809134715.G14606@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <a0432041ab5b41a6bc401@[203.15.106.22]> <200008090346.e793kh003901@fedde.littleton.co.us> <20000809133529.F14606@wantadilla.lemis.com> <a04320411b5b68a56a556@[172.54.6.185]> <20000809134715.G14606@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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At 13:47 +0930 9/8/00, Greg Lehey wrote: >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. Okay. So what sort of vinum entity do you put slash onto? Exactly the same sort of vinum volume that you'd mount a filesystem on? -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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