On Thu, Jul 07, 2011, Zeb Packard wrote:
> So, i've setup a file server with softraid rather than the older
> raidframe, however on the new system I tried setting my sd*b
> partitions to a raid 0 configuration so the swap space runs a
> little faster. After getting the swap space setup, though dmesg
> prints [ root on sd0a swap on sd0b ..]. After seeing this, i went
> ahead and setup a test system with raidframe again and built
> my raid on the swap partitions. Fstab points to raid partitions in
> both systems and they BOTH claim in dmesg that swap is
> being put on sd0b. My question is, am I getting somewhere
> with this or is the kernel going to look for sd0b and put swap on
> it automatically? Also, is there a way to prove the swap is
> on sd3b (softraid) or on raid0b (raidframe)?

You should have provided disklabels, but let's read your mind.

Do not stripe b partitions.  'b' is sacred, do not put other things on
it.  You should have striped the d/e/j paritions to create a softraid sd3,
then disklabel that and use sd3b for swap.  I really don't think
striping swap is worthwhile however.  Buy more memory.

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