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Date:      Sat, 31 Jul 2010 22:38:26 +0100
From:      krad <kraduk@googlemail.com>
To:        Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
Cc:        Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>, perryh@pluto.rain.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Installing a system to use both gjournal and gmirror
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On 31 July 2010 17:16, Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>wrote:

> On 31/07/2010 14:54:40, Adam Vande More wrote:
> > While you are correct there isn't much point in mirroring swap and tmp,
>
> Well, apart from the small point of being resilient to disk failure...
> You'ld probably survive /tmp going AWOL with no more than flesh wounds,
> a little screaming and some gnashing of teeth; but losing your swap area
> would almost certainly take your machine down hard.
>
>        Cheers,
>
>        Matthew
>
> --
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>
>

have a play with the latest pc-bsd disk if you are having issues. It will
install a native freebsd, and supports gmirror and gjournal. You can do it
via a script type install or GUI.



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