notice my boot pool is a mirror, so disk 2 is identical to disk1, so if disk1 ever dies, logically i could boot from disk two
pool: tank state: ONLINE scan: scrub repaired 0 in 0h0m with 0 errors on Sat May 11 13:20:41 2013 config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM tank ONLINE 0 0 0 mirror-0 ONLINE 0 0 0 da34p3 ONLINE 0 0 0 da35p3 ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: No known data errors On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Terje Elde <te...@elde.net> wrote: > On 12. mai 2013, at 15:21, Roland van Laar <rol...@micite.net> wrote: > > > I see that all the disks get the same partitions, including swap and > boot? > > Why is that? And do I need those 5 boot and swap partitions? > > You don't need them, but there's a good chance you'll want them. > > Long story, short version: with raidz and mirror, you survive the loss of > a disk. If you put boot on one, and that's the disk you loose, you're up > shit creek, having chosen not to bring a paddle. ;) > > It's also not a lot to loose by putting it on all of them. > > For swap, there's also performance-reasons. > > Terje > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"