Re: Swapping in the HOWTO

1999-12-26 Thread Andy Poling
On Sun, 26 Dec 1999, Jakob Østergaard wrote: > Am I correct in assuming that it is _ONLY_ under reconstruction that swapping > on RAID is not safe ? > > I've been rather busy lately (still am) so I didn't read the bug report... Is this > reconstruction/swap bug present in all RAID levels (with re

Re: Swapping in the HOWTO

1999-12-26 Thread Jakob Østergaard
On Sun, Dec 26, 1999 at 08:32:13PM +0100, Johan Ekenberg wrote: > According to Mr. Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], swapping on RAID is not > safe. This is an excerpt of our discussion on the list just recently, I'm > the one starting, commenting on a regular swap setup with several non-RAID > swa

Re: Swapping in the HOWTO

1999-12-26 Thread Jakob Østergaard
On Sun, Dec 26, 1999 at 03:26:07PM -0500, Andy Poling wrote: > On Sun, 26 Dec 1999, Johan Ekenberg wrote: > > As I see it, either the HOWTO is wrong, Mr Berra is wrong, or I'm not really > > understanding what the HOWTO is saying. In the first case it would be good > > to correct/expand the HOWTO,

SV: Swapping in the HOWTO

1999-12-26 Thread Johan Ekenberg
> > According to Mr. Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], swapping on RAID is not > it is not just according to me, it is Stephen Tweedie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > who spotted the bug. search the recent list archives for the previous > discussion, it was very similar to ours. That's alright, then Jacob w

Re: Swapping in the HOWTO

1999-12-26 Thread Andy Poling
On Sun, 26 Dec 1999, Johan Ekenberg wrote: > As I see it, either the HOWTO is wrong, Mr Berra is wrong, or I'm not really > understanding what the HOWTO is saying. In the first case it would be good > to correct/expand the HOWTO, in the other cases I would be very happy for a > clarification from

Re: Swapping in the HOWTO

1999-12-26 Thread Luca Berra
On Sun, Dec 26, 1999 at 08:32:13PM +0100, Johan Ekenberg wrote: > According to Mr. Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], swapping on RAID is not it is not just according to me, it is Stephen Tweedie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) who spotted the bug. search the recent list archives for the previous discussion, it

Swapping in the HOWTO

1999-12-26 Thread Johan Ekenberg
According to Mr. Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], swapping on RAID is not safe. This is an excerpt of our discussion on the list just recently, I'm the one starting, commenting on a regular swap setup with several non-RAID swap partitions: > > > > Alright, but this approach is still vulnerable to