On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 08:51:01AM +0100, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 11:40:37PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 11:07:55PM +0100, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> > > But setting swapoff=YES in /etc/rc.conf solves this issue too, doesn't
> > > it?
> > 
> > Not if you use reboot/halt instead of shutdown.  And I suspect
> > swapoff=YES may not always work if the system has lots of swap used.
> 
> Ok, this makes sense.  So I may configure things like: raid0a, raid0b, and
> raid1e, raid1f, and so on.  
> 
> But "parity" -- a RAID-1 doesn't use parity, does it?  Or does parity in
> this case just mean "equality of the mirrored data"?  

Yes. In this case the parity is just a XOR of the data with 0x0 :)

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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