cvs commit: src/sys/geom/mirror g_mirror.c

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 11:13:00AM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 12:56:07PM +0300, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:
> > On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> > 
> > PJD>   Modified files:
> > PJD>     sys/geom/mirror      g_mirror.c 
> > PJD>   Log:
> > PJD>   Allow to dump kernel to gmirror providers.
> > PJD>   Some conditions have to be met to make it work properly. This will be
> > PJD>   described in the manual page.
> > 
> > Thanks a lot!  So I save one partition (d) I'd usually dedicated for crashdumps 
> > only when I use gmirror from now on.
> > 
> YMMV of course, but at work we prefer to mirror slices not disks.
                                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> This way it's much more flexible -- you can have mirrored root,
> unmirrored swap, stripped+mirrored data, etc.
> 
Err, I meant "mirror partitions" of course.  :-)


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
ru at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer
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