Subject: Re: RAID & swap
To: Greg Oster <oster@cs.usask.ca>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: current-users
Date: 04/07/2000 16:53:09
On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 08:47:42AM -0600, Greg Oster wrote:
> It's a known problem.  The swap doesn't get unconfigured, so the swap 
> partition never gets unmounted, and so the RAID set never gets a chance to be 
> marked 'clean'.  (See PR#kern/8933 )

Ok.

> 
> > How hard would it be to add a shutdown hook to
> > close the swap device(s) ?
> 
> Well, if it was really easy I'd have it done by now :)

From Audit-trail of PR#8933:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: kern-bug-people->chs 
Responsible-Changed-By: chs 
Responsible-Changed-When: Wed Dec 1 20:38:31 PST 1999 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
I'll get the "swapctl -d" code in eventually (hopefully soon 
enough for 1.5, even!), which is some of what's required for this. 

swapctl -d is here and works now. Is this what you needed ?

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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