cvs commit: src/sys/geom/mirror g_mirror.c

[Larry Rosenman]

Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 12:56:07PM +0300, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:
>> On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
>> 
>>>   Modified files:
>>>     sys/geom/mirror      g_mirror.c
>>>   Log:
>>>   Allow to dump kernel to gmirror providers.
>>>   Some conditions have to be met to make it work properly. This
>>>   will be described in the manual page.
>> 
>> Thanks a lot!  So I save one partition (d) I'd usually dedicated for
>> crashdumps only when I use gmirror from now on.
>> 
> YMMV of course, but at work we prefer to mirror slices not disks.
> This way it's much more flexible -- you can have mirrored root,
> unmirrored swap, stripped+mirrored data, etc. 
> 
> 
> Cheers,

I was having issues where mirroring slices wouldn't always boot (earlier
RELENG_6).

Since the box is remote, it was just easier to mirror the disks.

I'm waiting with baited breath for this to make it to RELENG_6 so I can see
how it deals.

LER


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