[SunHELP] help w/ unmirroring swap

[Sandwich Maker]

" From: "Edward Chase" <echase at studentweb.providence.edu>
" 
" Currently I have a Solaris 9 box that has a mirrored swap space.  We have a
" quick need to increase swap space.  I'm thinking that I can unmirror swap
" and then turn on both partitions as swap.  I'll get double the current swap
" and lose the protection that mirroring provides.
" 
" Would the easiest way be to just alter the vfstab file and reboot?

easiest perhaps.  is this to be permanent or just temporary?

you -could- just detach one side of the mirror, then swap -a the raw
slice.

then optionally, swap -d the mirror, delete it, and swap -a the
remaining raw slice.

no downtime required, but edit vfstab if you want it to be permanent.

" The current entry is
" 
" /dev/md/dsk/d1  -       -       swap    -       no      -
" 
" If I was to just replace it with
" 
" /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1       -       -       swap    -       no      -
" /dev/dsk/c0t1d0s1       -       -       swap    -       no      -
" 
" Would that work?  Or do I have to worry at all about the metadevice, d1?

i suspect the metadevice would step all over this if you didn't delete
it.

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