Subject: Re: practical RAIDframe questions
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Geert Hendrickx <ghen@telenet.be>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 01/27/2006 08:51:01
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"?  

	Geert