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] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
