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 turned on at > that point? And, either way, why doesn't it log a message to the > effect of "WARNING: Swap was not activated during the boot process. > You will be running with physical memory only unless you manually run > the command `swapon -a`."?
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. mike
