Herbert Graeber wrote: > Am Dienstag, 4. Dezember 2007 13:48:46 schrieb Jim Flanagan: > >> On my new 10.3 install I set up 2 drives in raid1 mirror, using software >> raid in yast. All seems to be working fine except in Kinfocenter>memory >> swap is shown as not available. Yast shows swap with an "*" beside it. >> My partitions are set up as follows: >> primary >> /dev/md0 /boot >> extended >> /dev/md1 /swap >> /dev/md2 / >> /dev/md3 /home >> /dev/md4 /share >> >> I'm not that familiar with tweaking swap and have only set it up in >> yast>partitioner before with no previous problems. This is my first raid >> setup so there may be an issue with that, but again, all others >> partitions are working fine. I tried editing swap in yast to format it >> again as /swap but it failed with an error code -3004. >> >> Anyone know what this problem may be? >> > > The reason is that suspend/resume from a raid swap partition does not work. > You have three options: > > 1. Do not use a swap partion on raid. This ok, if a crash and a reboot after > a > failing disk is no problem for you. May be acceptable for Notebooks and > desktop systems > > 2. Remove the resume=/dev/md1 from your kernel option line. Suspend/Resume > from does not work. Should be fine for servers. > > 3. Have two swap partions one without raid for the resume and one with raid > for swapping, large enough, that the first one is not really used for > swapping (I haven tested this). > > Cheers > Herbert > Most intersting. Option 3 does both un-mirrored and mirrored. I'm not sure I want to test that one out, but sound plausible. I guess I'm good with putting swap on an un-mirrored partition, as long as it doesn't break the mirrors in the event of one disk failure, (see my post a few minutes ago on this). Seems un-mirrored would be faster anyway, but I want to keep the integrity of the mirrored partitions.
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