Why not just let the kernel handle the stripping for you, IMO using dmraid is overkill for swap when it can all be handled by the kernel itself with 'swap -p1 /dev/sda1' for example. On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 13:59 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 5/16/2011 4:41 PM, Gavin Flower wrote: > > > Motivation, existing RAID-6 swap partition failed. I am thinking I should recreate it in a new format, as currently it is 'Version : 0.90', rather than simply rebuild it. > <snip> > > Forget using a partition. Simply use a swap file. This example creates > a 1GB swap file in the / filesystem. You can locate it on any > filesystem you wish. > > # swappoff -a > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile1 bs=1024 count=1048576 > # mkswap /swapfile1 > # swapon /swapfile1 > # vi /etc/fstab > Add: > /swapfile1 swap swap defaults 0 0 > > and remove your old entry for the failed swap partition. > > There is little performance difference between swap files and swap > partitions with modern kernels. The kernel will map the disk location > of the swap file and perform direct disk access, bypassing the > filesystem and buffer cache. > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
