Re: Swap partition priority
- In reply to: Stéphane_Rochoy : "Re: Swap partition priority"
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Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2026 17:45:35 UTC
On 8/18/26 00:49, Stéphane Rochoy wrote:
> Long ago I came accross a setup were the swap device was a GEOM mirror
> (see gmirror(8)). AFAIK it was working except for vmcores: the kernel
> was always using the first device which required to help savecore(8) a
> bit.
I learned the hard way that if you want a gmirror that works with
savecore, you need to set the balance to "prefer":
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=288345#c23
See the NOTES section in gmirror(8) for more details.
Craig