Gmirror'd SWAP: no dump?

[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
> best to hardcode all providers using '-h' at all gmirror insert
> operations for a slice based setup.   
> 
> [1] http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/
> 
> Hope this helps
> -cs

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.

In this kind of setup, I still saw the 'b' partition mirrored. (since I
basically
Only have da0s1/da1s1).



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