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authorru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2006-09-18 11:55:10 +0000
committerru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2006-09-18 11:55:10 +0000
commit731fda35ce88946da33482413f668ed0742794f7 (patch)
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parent6188505097e44ad99cae9c5396c99721c1b0624e (diff)
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Markup fixes.
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-rw-r--r--sbin/geom/class/mirror/gmirror.88
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/geom/class/mirror/gmirror.8 b/sbin/geom/class/mirror/gmirror.8
index 8feb316..a58212c 100644
--- a/sbin/geom/class/mirror/gmirror.8
+++ b/sbin/geom/class/mirror/gmirror.8
@@ -120,7 +120,9 @@ indicates an action to be performed:
Create a mirror.
The order of components is important, because a component's priority is based on its position
(starting from 0).
-The component with the biggest priority is used by the prefer balance algorithm
+The component with the biggest priority is used by the
+.Cm prefer
+balance algorithm
and is also used as a master component when resynchronization is needed,
e.g.\& after a power failure when the device was open for writing.
.Pp
@@ -291,7 +293,8 @@ This is possible, but some conditions have to be met.
First of all, a kernel dump will go only to one component and
.Nm
always chooses the component with the highest priority.
-Reading a dump from the mirror on boot will only work if the prefer
+Reading a dump from the mirror on boot will only work if the
+.Cm prefer
balance algorithm is used (that way
.Nm
will read only from the component with the highest priority).
@@ -320,7 +323,6 @@ will find nothing.
If on the next boot a component with the highest priority will be synchronized,
the prefer balance algorithm will read from the next one, thus will find nothing
there.
-.Ed
.Sh SEE ALSO
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