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From: likewhoa <likewhoa@weboperative.com>
Subject: Re: Best way to create RAID-6 for swap partition - existing one
 failed
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 16:59:56 -0400
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read 'man 2 swapon' for info on the -p flag.

On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 13:32 -0700, Gavin Flower wrote:
> --- On Thu, 19/5/11, likewhoa <likewhoa@weboperative.com> wrote:
>=20
> > From: likewhoa <likewhoa@weboperative.com>
> > Subject: Re: Best way to create RAID-6 for swap partition - existing on=
e failed
> > To: "Gavin Flower" <gavinflower@yahoo.com>
> > Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
> > Date: Thursday, 19 May, 2011, 7:57
> > 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.
> [...]
>=20
> Could you please tell where to read up on that, URL or man page.  I do no=
t know where to apply your suggestion, nor the meaning of the '-p1' option.
>=20
> I should have said the original problem was associated with hibernation. =
 (I also have 2 other desk tops that don't use RAID for swap.)
>=20
> For now, I'll leave the swap as is - but, I will rethink how I implement =
swap when I upgrade to Fedora 15.
>=20
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