On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 09:56:04PM -0400, Torrey McMahon wrote: > > If you lose the primary drive, and your dump device points to the > metadevice, then you wouldn't have to reset it. Also, most folks use the
Eh, that's true, not something I've really ever had to think about due to your next point. > swap device for dumps. You wouldn't want to lose that on a live box. > (Though honestly I've never just yanked the swap device and seen if the > system keels over. Neither have I, but mirroring swap is something I commonly do, so haven't ever gotten myself into a situation to find out what happens. I bet it's ugly though. ;) -brian -- "Perl can be fast and elegant as much as J2EE can be fast and elegant. In the hands of a skilled artisan, it can and does happen; it's just that most of the shit out there is built by people who'd be better suited to making sure that my burger is cooked thoroughly." -- Jonathan Patschke _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
