From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gavin Flower Subject: Re: Best way to create RAID-6 for swap partition - existing one failed Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 15:55:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <584815.1435.qm@web65107.mail.ac2.yahoo.com> References: <4DD4477B.3000704@hardwarefreak.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4DD4477B.3000704@hardwarefreak.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Stan Hoeppner Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, neilb@suse.de, mb@gem.win.co.nz List-Id: linux-raid.ids --- On Thu, 19/5/11, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > From: Stan Hoeppner > Subject: Re: Best way to create RAID-6 for swap partition - existing = one failed > To: "Gavin Flower" > Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, neilb@suse.de, mb@gem.win.co.nz > Date: Thursday, 19 May, 2011, 10:26 > On 5/18/2011 3:42 PM, Gavin Flower > wrote: >=20 > > I just checked the man page for mkswap, it still > recommends using a partition. >=20 > Gavin, you know who Andrew Morton is, yes?=A0 His > opinion on the subject: >=20 > http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/7/7/326 >=20 > Don't know about you, but I think I'll trust Morton's > opinion on this > more than the writer of the mkswap man page.=A0 BTW, the > similarities > between what I wrote earlier and Morton's comments in the > lkml thread > above are not coincidental. ;) >=20 > --=20 > Stan >=20 Andrew Morton is God's 2nd in command. :-) He took over from Alan Cox. Seeing how all too frequently I have problems recovering from hibernati= on due to the video driver crashing, and my system can at least start w= ithout swap (I have 8GB) - I think will implement the file idea next ti= me I do a major O/S upgrade. Currently my options seems to be to either continue with my RAID-6 swap= partition (which I have done) or to use a file within another RAID-6 p= artition. I now have a policy of trying to spend more time understanding why I sh= ould do things a particular way, rather than simply following recipes b= lindly. partly because I am a geek, and partly it might be useful profe= ssionally. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html