Re: raid1 with gmirror (some questions left)

2005-07-01 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Danny Howard wrote: P.U.Kruppa wrote: As far as I can see, booting from gm0 works fine. There are only two questions left: 1) I installed FreeBSD 5.4 -RELEASE and thus I put - as recommended (or was that only for 5.3 ???) - swapoff=YES into my /etc/rc.conf .

Re: raid1 with gmirror (some questions left)

2005-07-01 Thread Danny Howard
On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 12:13:50PM +0200, P.U.Kruppa wrote: swapoff=YES into /etc/rc.conf -since it was recommended. It is still there can I remove it now or will there be any problems? I think they might have fixed that in 5.4, but it doesn't huirt to have it there. I've been careful to run

raid1 with gmirror (some questions left)

2005-06-30 Thread P.U.Kruppa
Hi! I have to set up a new proxy for our school. Since I found two identical IDE disks, I gave a software raid1 with gmirror a try. I set the two disk as primary and secondary master, ie. ad0 and ad2, and followed Ralf Engelschall's excellent HowTo at http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/

Re: raid1 with gmirror (some questions left)

2005-06-30 Thread Danny Howard
P.U.Kruppa wrote: As far as I can see, booting from gm0 works fine. There are only two questions left: 1) I installed FreeBSD 5.4 -RELEASE and thus I put - as recommended (or was that only for 5.3 ???) - swapoff=YES into my /etc/rc.conf . Now my raid1 device doesn't show any swap