5.3-STABLE: handle_workitem_freefile panic

[Dmitry Morozovsky]

On Sun, 23 Jan 2005, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:

PJD> You cannot dump to GEOM providers, especially from rank > 1 geoms.
PJD> It is better to create more mirrors for every partition you want to mirror
PJD> (or slice) instead of whole disk.
PJD> One of the benefits is that gmirror marks mirror as clean if there were no
PJD> WRITE requests in few seconds, so even after power failure resynchonization
PJD> is not needed. When you've many smaller mirrors, after unclean shutdown you
PJD> probably don't need rebuild all mirrors.
PJD> The argument against could be that when you synchronize many mirrors on
PJD> the same disks in parallel, your disks are less happy (in one big mirror
PJD> scenario, disk's heads don't have to jump from one place to another so
PJD> often).

Well, hope I see both sides of the picture.

However: how can the be achieved the following goal: have mirrored swap (to 
keep redundancy and HA) and a place to dump panic images to, modulo having 
scratch disk and/or scratch unused partition?

Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
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