freebsd stable - May 2004 - [kern/60555] vinum volume as a swap device not possible onFreeBSD 5.2.1

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Thanks 

Will try it.

Cheers 
Conrad 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick M. Hausen [mailto:hausen@punkt.de] 
> Sent: 16 May 2004 01:21 PM
> To: aw1@stade.co.uk
> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: [kern/60555] vinum volume as a swap device not 
> possible onFreeBSD 5.2.1
> 
> 
> Hello!
> 
> Adrian Wontroba wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 03:36:11AM +0200, Conrad Burger wrote:
> 
> > > I am trying to mirror a servers swap partition using 
> vinum, but it 
> > > doesn't seem to be possible in FreeBSD 5.2.1.
> >  
> > > Just need to know if I should downgrade to 5.1 ?
> 
> > Looks like downgrading to 5.1 (or even the current 
> production release 
> > (4.9, soon to be 4.10)), is your best short-term option.  Or do 
> > without mirrored swap.
> 
> I'm running 5.2.1 systems with a vinum mirrored swap this way:
> 
> - prepare a vinum mirrored drive
> - create an UFS filesystem on it
> - create a large file of ~90% of the file systems size
> - swap to that
> 
> There is a performance penalty when swapping to plain files 
> instead of a dedicated disk, but IMHO a properly sized system 
> should rarely swap at all.
> 
> HTH,
> Patrick
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