From: likewhoa <likewhoa@weboperative.com>
To: Gavin Flower <gavinflower@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, neilb@suse.de, mb@gem.win.co.nz
Subject: Re: Best way to create RAID-6 for swap partition - existing one failed
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 16:59:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1305752396.10481.3.camel@darkside> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <12577.16388.qm@web65103.mail.ac2.yahoo.com>
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read 'man 2 swapon' for info on the -p flag.
On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 13:32 -0700, Gavin Flower wrote:
> --- On Thu, 19/5/11, likewhoa <likewhoa@weboperative.com> wrote:
>
> > From: likewhoa <likewhoa@weboperative.com>
> > Subject: Re: Best way to create RAID-6 for swap partition - existing one failed
> > To: "Gavin Flower" <gavinflower@yahoo.com>
> > Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
> > Date: Thursday, 19 May, 2011, 7:57
> > Why not just let the kernel handle
> > the stripping for you, IMO using
> > dmraid is overkill for swap when it can all be handled by
> > the kernel
> > itself with 'swap -p1 /dev/sda1' for example.
> [...]
>
> Could you please tell where to read up on that, URL or man page. I do not know where to apply your suggestion, nor the meaning of the '-p1' option.
>
> I should have said the original problem was associated with hibernation. (I also have 2 other desk tops that don't use RAID for swap.)
>
> For now, I'll leave the swap as is - but, I will rethink how I implement swap when I upgrade to Fedora 15.
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-18 20:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-16 21:41 Best way to create RAID-6 for swap partition - existing one failed Gavin Flower
2011-05-18 15:01 ` David Brown
2011-05-18 18:59 ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-05-18 19:57 ` likewhoa
2011-05-18 20:32 ` Gavin Flower
2011-05-18 20:59 ` likewhoa [this message]
2011-05-18 20:13 ` Gavin Flower
2011-05-18 21:53 ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-05-18 22:31 ` Gavin Flower
2011-05-18 23:01 ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-05-18 20:42 ` Gavin Flower
2011-05-18 22:26 ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-05-18 22:55 ` Gavin Flower
2011-05-19 0:11 ` Gavin Flower
2011-05-19 2:26 ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-05-19 2:50 ` Gavin Flower
2011-05-19 3:28 ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-05-19 4:05 ` Gavin Flower
2011-05-19 8:17 ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-05-20 3:32 ` Leslie Rhorer
2011-05-19 9:04 ` Gordon Henderson
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