Re: RAIDframe guide too complicated

[Greg Oster <oster%cs.usask.ca@localhost>]

On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 18:25:50 +0000
Matthias Scheler <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost> wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 10:24:25AM -0800, Jeff Rizzo wrote:
> > >1.) Removing the part about setting a non-RAIDed swap partition for
> > >     kernel crash dumps. That hasn't been necessary since NetBSD
> > > 5.0 and is highly error prone.
> 
> I still want to make this change.

I'm certainly fine with this, and anything else that improves
documentation... (though I can't claim authorship of the RAIDframe bits
in the guide...)

> > >2.) I would like to suggest a setup with a single RAIDframe volume
> > >     where the root and swap partition are simply sub partitions of
> > >     e.g. "raid0". I'm using such a setup for years. It works
> > >     well and is easy to configure
> 
> I just realized that I misread the document. It already suggest to use
> a single RAID volume.
> 
> > That sounds good to me.  Another thing which would be really helpful
> > is being able to set up raidframe in sysinst...
> 
> Yes, indeed.

Agreed.

Later...

Greg Oster