Subject: Re: raidframe (was: CVS commit: basesrc)
To: Simon Burge <simonb@wasabisystems.com>
From: Greg Oster <oster@cs.usask.ca>
List: current-users
Date: 05/16/2001 13:16:31
Simon Burge writes:
> Tim Preston wrote:
> 
> > Eek! 'reboot' is a really bad move on one of my systems. I had to make
> > shutdown run /etc/rc.d/swap* [1]  or the mirrored swap doesn't get
> > unconfigured and I end up with dirty parity which takes a considerable
> > time to rebuild.
> 
> I thought this particular problem had been fixed in the raidframe
> driver...  Greg?

If swap partitions are sucessfully removed then RAIDframe will happily 
unconfigure the RAID set and mark it as 'clean'.  RAIDframe doesn't care what 
sort of data is on the RAID set, and doesn't have any mechanisms for treating
swap as 'special'.

Later...

Greg Oster