From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stan Hoeppner Subject: Re: Best way to create RAID-6 for swap partition - existing one failed Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 18:01:21 -0500 Message-ID: <4DD44FC1.9020500@hardwarefreak.com> References: <953428.5114.qm@web65107.mail.ac2.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <953428.5114.qm@web65107.mail.ac2.yahoo.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Gavin Flower Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, neilb@suse.de, mb@gem.win.co.nz List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 5/18/2011 5:31 PM, Gavin Flower wrote: > I took longer than I'm prepared to admit! :-) > > I'll take note, and either apply your idea next time it happens, or when I do a major O/S upgrade. You seem to see this as a major system change, something not dare implemented 'on the fly'. It takes 60 seconds and you're done, with zero downside, zero worries. There are high security environments that deactivate and clear swap files with dd at each logoff, as well as dropping all caches, then reactivate the swap file. Swap files are not fragile. -- Stan