On Jan 30, 2013, at 10:22 AM, Warren Block wrote:

> If you want to use the same drive for booting, it's possible.  Create all 
> three partitions on both drives manually.  Then mirror the freebsd-ufs 
> partition only.  The contents of the freebsd-boot partition don't change 
> often, and swap does not have to be mirrored.

        Note that if you do NOT mirror SWAP, then in the event of a disk 
failure you will most likely crash when the system tries to swap in some data 
from the failed drive. If you mirror swap then you do not risk a crash due to 
missing swap data.

--
Paul Kraus
Deputy Technical Director, LoneStarCon 3
Sound Coordinator, Schenectady Light Opera Company

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