Jerry McAllister wrote: > One small modification, as someone noted, if you make a vinum or mirror, > you will probably not want the chunk of swap to be on the front of > the second drive. So, you can make it last without too much difficult.
Chuck Swiger wrote: > If you do want to mirror the boot disk, you want the first partition to > be bootable and resemble the first disk, which means you do not want to > put swap first on the 200GB drive.
Hi, just a comment on one of the issues:
For what its worth, I have two identical disks mirrored with gvinum, and where swap is first on the disk.
As an example, here is bsdlabel-output for one:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
a: 2097152 2097417 4.2BSD 0 0 0
b: 2097152 0 swap
c: 78172227 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, don't edit
d: 76075075 2097152 vinum
Some of this is described in in the vinum section of The Handbook.
Sorry but I cannot remember the details when installing, so I will refrain from giving detailed advice.
This setup has worked well at least for me; the system can boot from either disk in case of a diskfault.
It does of course not cover a failed update attempt or a quick configuration change gone bad. So I am going to try that /altroot advice too.
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