--- On Thu, 19/5/11, Stan Hoeppner <stan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Stan Hoeppner <stan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: Best way to create RAID-6 for swap partition - existing one failed > To: "Gavin Flower" <gavinflower@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, neilb@xxxxxxx, mb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Thursday, 19 May, 2011, 10:26 > On 5/18/2011 3:42 PM, Gavin Flower > wrote: > > > I just checked the man page for mkswap, it still > recommends using a partition. > > Gavin, you know who Andrew Morton is, yes? His > opinion on the subject: > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/7/7/326 > > Don't know about you, but I think I'll trust Morton's > opinion on this > more than the writer of the mkswap man page. BTW, the > similarities > between what I wrote earlier and Morton's comments in the > lkml thread > above are not coincidental. ;) > > -- > Stan > Andrew Morton is God's 2nd in command. :-) He took over from Alan Cox. Seeing how all too frequently I have problems recovering from hibernation due to the video driver crashing, and my system can at least start without swap (I have 8GB) - I think will implement the file idea next time I do a major O/S upgrade. Currently my options seems to be to either continue with my RAID-6 swap partition (which I have done) or to use a file within another RAID-6 partition. I now have a policy of trying to spend more time understanding why I should do things a particular way, rather than simply following recipes blindly. partly because I am a geek, and partly it might be useful professionally. -- 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
