> >To survive the death of a disk on which swap resides.
> >
> >> it should be possible.
> >
> >Yes, but it isn't because AFAIK the 2.2 swap code bypasses too many
> >layers and thus doesn't work when a member of the the mirror/stripe
> >set fails.
>
> And how about swap in file?
Same problem. Sw
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hein Roehrig wrote:
>Jean-Paul Blaquiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Why do you really want to mirror swap?
>
>To survive the death of a disk on which swap resides.
>
>> it should be possible.
>
>Yes, but it isn't because AFAIK the 2.2 swap code bypasses too many
>
Jean-Paul Blaquiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Why do you really want to mirror swap?
To survive the death of a disk on which swap resides.
> it should be possible.
Yes, but it isn't because AFAIK the 2.2 swap code bypasses too many
layers and thus doesn't work when a member of the the mirror/
> On Oct 26, andy scratched in indelible ink :
> i received one yes vote and one no vote for whether swap can be mirrored,
> but everything i found on the net at large points to no...
>
Why do you really want to mirror swap?
it should be possible. set up the md device, mkswap /dev/md?
and off yo
in case anyone is interested, i didn't get any feedback on how to make
silo do what i wanted (and i'm guessing that it currently just can't
handle metadevices), but once root was mirrored the obp boot-device
variable seems to do the trick, regardless (once silo was run on the other
disk, as well)..
> debian 2.2 on an e250, kernel 2.2.17 with the raid-2.2.17-A0 patch
> applied, using raidtools-dangerous-0.90-2116, silo 0.9.8-1.
wel, i've never tried it on a sparc, but i'm running RAID1 on a i386 (2x
9.1Gb):
2.2.17 + raid-2.2.17-A0 patch + raidtools2 0.90.990824-5 (potato)
> if this is a r
debian 2.2 on an e250, kernel 2.2.17 with the raid-2.2.17-A0 patch
applied, using raidtools-dangerous-0.90-2116, silo 0.9.8-1.
if this is a rtfm or faq somewhere, please point me in the right
direction... haven't had any luck finding the info myself.
i'm trying to mirror two 9gb drives, sda
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