Re: Swap partition priority

Craig Leres <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.hackers
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 8/18/26 00:49, Stéphane Rochoy wrote:
> Long ago I came accross a setup were the swap device was a GEOM mirror
> (see gmirror(8)). AFAIK it was working except for vmcores: the kernel
> was always using the first device which required to help savecore(8) a
> bit.

I learned the hard way that if you want a gmirror that works with 
savecore, you need to set the balance to "prefer":

     https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=288345#c23

See the NOTES section in gmirror(8) for more details.

		Craig
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