Re: md resync vs. swap (was Re: Swap not starting)

2002-01-10 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 11:13:11AM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote: > > Something in the back of my mind says it's to do with having a swap > > file/partition on the raid volume, that that is a bad thing while it is > > syncing it. > > > > I don't remember ex

Re: md resync vs. swap (was Re: Swap not starting)

2002-01-10 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 11:13:11AM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote: > Something in the back of my mind says it's to do with having a swap > file/partition on the raid volume, that that is a bad thing while it is > syncing it. > > I don't remember exactly though. I suppose that could lead to some nasty

Re: md resync vs. swap (was Re: Swap not starting)

2002-01-10 Thread Mike Dresser
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Dave Sherohman wrote: > grep -qs resync /proc/mdstat || swapon -a 2> /dev/null > > So why would the system want to run swapless if a RAID is resyncing? > Is this just to preserve disk controller bandwidth so the resync > finishes faster or would Bad Things happen if swap were

md resync vs. swap (was Re: Swap not starting)

2002-01-10 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 07:42:28PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 13:14:00 -0600, Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Any ideas on what might be preventing swap from getting started > > automatically at boot? > > Well, /etc/init.d/mountall.sh generally runs swapon at s