Subject: Re: raid-1 problem
To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.3miasto.net>
From: Greg Oster <oster@cs.usask.ca>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 08/08/2001 11:51:32
Wojciech Puchar writes:
> > > > > start.
> > > > >
> > > > > what's wrong?!
> > > >
> > > > I need to know what version of NetBSD before I can speculate...  do you
>  hav
> > > e
> > >
> > > / on raid0a and swap on raid0b
> >
> > So the problem is that swap doesn't get unconfigured, and thus raid0 never
> > gets shutdown cleanly.  Some options are:
> >  1) move the swap to it's own RAID set.  It still won't get shutdown proper
> ly,
> > but will take less time to rebuild, and you won't have critical filesystems
> > on a non-redundant RAID set after a shutdown.
> >
> >  2) Put a line like:
> >
> > # KEYWORD: shutdown
> >
> > in /etc/rc.d/swap1 .  That way when you do a shutdown, the system will
> > (hopefully) be able to unconfigure the swap, which should allow the RAID se
> t
> 
> this is simplest and nicest solution. will root filesystem unmount
> automatically by kernel?

Yup, it should.

> > to unconfigure cleanly.  (Hmm.. there might be something else needed here,
> > but it's been a while since I last thought about this problem..)

Later...

Greg Oster