Subject: Re: RAIDFrame One or Many
To: Caffeinate The World <mochaexpress@yahoo.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 04/16/2003 09:39:51
On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 06:02:18PM -0700, Caffeinate The World wrote:
> 
> --- Andrew Gillham <gillham@vaultron.com> wrote:
> > swapoff=NO # Remove block-type swap partitions upon shutdown
> 
> Shouldn't that be swapoff=YES? That was what I had and things worked
> good until my nightmare hardware experience.
> 
> I also found setting in fstab:
> 
>   /dev/raid1a none dp dp 0 0
> 
> for dumps if you don't have swap on raid0b.

You can't dump to a raid device yet (because raidframe needs process
scheduling, which is stopped while dumps are running). What I do is
make a partition on the boot disk (which falls into the swap partition on
the raid device) for dumps.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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