Subject: Re: RAID & swap
To: Tom Ivar Helbekkmo <tih@kpnQwest.no>
From: Greg Oster <oster@cs.usask.ca>
List: current-users
Date: 04/08/2000 10:05:28
Tom Ivar Helbekkmo writes:
> Greg Oster <oster@cs.usask.ca> writes:
> 
> > > How hard would it be to add a shutdown hook to
> > > close the swap device(s) ?
> > 
> > Well, if it was really easy I'd have it done by now :)
> 
> How about some kind of _startup_ thing to initialize that partition,
> that is, mark it as "clean" for raidframe, as it is known not to
> contain anything useful at that point?

It'd be nice if we could just mark it 'clean' just because it doesn't 
contain anything useful, but we can't do that... (if it's not clean, 
we have to go to the trouble of making sure the parity is correct...
and that will proably take time..)

Later...

Greg Oster