Subject: Re: practical RAIDframe questions
To: Mike M. Volokhov <mishka@intostroy.com>
From: Geert Hendrickx <ghen@telenet.be>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 01/27/2006 10:15:58
On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 10:49:15AM +0200, Mike M. Volokhov wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 23:40:37 +0100 Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> This is why I have separate non RAID partition (without any overlapping
> with RAID parts) for this purposes (wd[01..]b to be precise). I.e.:
> 
>   wd*a - /dev/raid0
>   wd*b - swap (with enough size to be workable with single drive only)
>   wd*[e-p] - other /dev/raid*, if you need them

What happens if one drive goes down while your system was swapping on it?
Have you had experience with this?  

	Geert