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Date:      Tue, 2 Jan 2007 13:52:01 -0600
From:      "Rick C. Petty" <rick-freebsd@kiwi-computer.com>
To:        freebsd-geom@freebsd.org, michael.knoll@gmail.com
Subject:   Re: Recommended gmirror solution with swap?
Message-ID:  <20070102195201.GC83431@keira.kiwi-computer.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070101215016.GA71635@voi.aagh.net>
References:  <975053160612310913t3dadcc02yfac58f6fbf0a49df@mail.gmail.com> <20070101215016.GA71635@voi.aagh.net>

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On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 09:50:16PM +0000, Thomas Hurst wrote:
> 
> 
> Are you sure you're not confusing the swapoff="YES" line many guides
> suggest adding to rc.conf with disabling swap completely?  This just
> makes the system issue swapoff -a at shutdown to make sure any mirrored
> swap devices are closed, which used to result in the mirror being
> rebuilt at startup because it was "dirty".

Where is that rc.conf option defined or used?  Certainly not in 6.x:

% grep -R swapoff /etc/
/etc/security/audit_event:355:AUE_DARWIN_SWAPOFF:swapoff():ad
/etc/security/audit_event:43045:AUE_SWAPOFF:swapoff():ad

-- Rick C. Petty



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