On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:30:06AM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > On 01/24/2011 23:20, Eugene Grosbein wrote: > >Hi! > > > >In RELENG_8, gmirror is good enough to keep whole HDD pair withing the > >mirror. > >Its performance, stability any pretty ease of maintainance allows > >to use it widely. > > > >With wide deployment of gmirror in production I've faced inability > >of RELENG_8 to store kernel crashdumps out-of-the-box. > >gmirror manual page documents a way to setup FreeBSD so that > >it would store crashdumps again but that way involves /etc/rc.early > >removed from RELENG_8. I've read about intentions - it was unsafe etc. > >But we still need working crashdump support. > > > >Easiest way is to reincarnate /etc/rc.d/early support making it better and > >safer > >and it should support gmirror's mechanics for crashdumps out-of-the-box. > > I'll tell you the same thing I told Kostik way back when I removed it. > This is the only thing that anyone has ever suggested a use for in > /etc/rc.early, and the "solution" in the man page is a hack. :) > > If this is something that is necessary to do then I'd prefer to do it > properly and add an /etc/rc.d/gmirror that runs in the proper (early) > position, and then figure out the proper location in rc.d to handle the > second half of the configuration. > No, my use for rc.early is different. I use it to load modules before filesystems are mounted.
> I'm happy to review patches. :) > > > Doug > > -- > > Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. > -- OK Go > > Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. > Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
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