swap file using gmirror?

bob self bobself at charter.net
Mon Aug 15 15:42:01 GMT 2005


Andrea Venturoli wrote:

> bob self wrote:
>
>>> If you put your swap partition on a gmirror drive, your swap 
>>> partition will benefit from RAID 1.
>>> swapoff="YES" only allows for a clean shutdown, so that gmirror 
>>> won't rebuild everything on next boot.
>>>
>>>  bye
>>>     av.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> So, is there swap space somewhere?
>
>
> Maybe yes, maybe not: you won't find the answer in rc.conf and 
> swapoff="YES" doesn't say anything about that.
>
> Try "swapinfo".
>
>  bye
>     av.
>
>
I ran swapinfo:

Device                        1K-blocks         Used         Avail Capacity
/dev/mirror/gm0s1b     3145728            0               3145728       0%

So, I have swap space?

Bob




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