RE: Gmirror'd SWAP: no dump?

2006-01-19 Thread Larry Rosenman
Igor Robul wrote: On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 12:44:27PM -0600, Larry Rosenman wrote: Are there any plans to support dumping to a gmirror'd swapfile? Dumping occurs when kernel is in bad condition, so GEOM can not be safe used (for example panic in GEOM code). Check archives for last month of

RE: Gmirror'd SWAP: no dump?

2006-01-19 Thread Gavin Atkinson
On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 05:49 -0600, Larry Rosenman wrote: Igor Robul wrote: On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 12:44:27PM -0600, Larry Rosenman wrote: Are there any plans to support dumping to a gmirror'd swapfile? Dumping occurs when kernel is in bad condition, so GEOM can not be safe used (for

Re: Gmirror'd SWAP: no dump?

2006-01-19 Thread Christoph Schug
On Thu, Jan 19, 2006, Larry Rosenman wrote: All the HOWTO's I've seen have the entire disk mirrored, including all the pieces. See [1] how to setup a GEOM on a slice basis. You only have to skip swap and mind the correct /etc/fstab entry. From my experience, it is best to hardcode all

RE: Gmirror'd SWAP: no dump?

2006-01-19 Thread Larry Rosenman
Christoph Schug wrote: On Thu, Jan 19, 2006, Larry Rosenman wrote: All the HOWTO's I've seen have the entire disk mirrored, including all the pieces. See [1] how to setup a GEOM on a slice basis. You only have to skip swap and mind the correct /etc/fstab entry. From my experience, it is

RE: Gmirror'd SWAP: no dump?

2006-01-19 Thread Larry Rosenman
Gavin Atkinson wrote: On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 05:49 -0600, Larry Rosenman wrote: Igor Robul wrote: On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 12:44:27PM -0600, Larry Rosenman wrote: Are there any plans to support dumping to a gmirror'd swapfile? Dumping occurs when kernel is in bad condition, so GEOM can not be

Re: Gmirror'd SWAP: no dump?

2006-01-19 Thread Christoph Schug
On Thu, Jan 19, 2006, Larry Rosenman wrote: Would the lack of -h cause gmirror to hang at startup? I'd see the Gmirror code come up, and then the machine would hang. IIRC I had the problem that 'gmirror insert' without '-h' not always inserted the slice specified by the entire block device

Re: Gmirror'd SWAP: no dump?

2006-01-19 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Christoph Schug ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: IIRC I had the problem that 'gmirror insert' without '-h' not always inserted the slice specified by the entire block device (e.g. /dev/ad4s1 vs. /dev/ad4). Apparently there is some auto detection code and/or gmirror cannot differ correctly, but

Re: Gmirror'd SWAP: no dump?

2006-01-19 Thread Craig Boston
On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 02:53:42PM +, Thomas Hurst wrote: IIRC I had the problem that 'gmirror insert' without '-h' not always inserted the slice specified by the entire block device (e.g. /dev/ad4s1 vs. /dev/ad4). Apparently there is some auto detection code and/or gmirror cannot

RE: Gmirror'd SWAP: no dump?

2006-01-19 Thread Larry Rosenman
Craig Boston wrote: On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 02:53:42PM +, Thomas Hurst wrote: IIRC I had the problem that 'gmirror insert' without '-h' not always inserted the slice specified by the entire block device (e.g. /dev/ad4s1 vs. /dev/ad4). Apparently there is some auto detection code and/or

Gmirror'd SWAP: no dump?

2006-01-18 Thread Larry Rosenman
Are there any plans to support dumping to a gmirror'd swapfile? My FreeBSD/amd64 6.0-STABLE as of today doesn't seem to want to do it. Thanks, LER -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 512-248-2683 E-Mail: ler@lerctr.org US Mail: 430 Valona

Re: Gmirror'd SWAP: no dump?

2006-01-18 Thread Igor Robul
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 12:44:27PM -0600, Larry Rosenman wrote: Are there any plans to support dumping to a gmirror'd swapfile? Dumping occurs when kernel is in bad condition, so GEOM can not be safe used (for example panic in GEOM code). Check archives for last month of 2005 for longer