--- On Thu, 19/5/11, Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com> wrote:

From: Stan Hoeppner <redacted>
Subject: Re: Best way to create RAID-6 for swap partition - existing one failed
To: "Gavin Flower" <redacted>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, neilb@suse.de, mb@gem.win.co.nz
Date: Thursday, 19 May, 2011, 10:26
On 5/18/2011 3:42 PM, Gavin Flower
wrote:

quoted

I just checked the man page for mkswap, it still

recommends using a partition.

Gavin, you know who Andrew Morton is, yes?  His
opinion on the subject:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/7/7/326

Don't know about you, but I think I'll trust Morton's
opinion on this
more than the writer of the mkswap man page.  BTW, the
similarities
between what I wrote earlier and Morton's comments in the
lkml thread
above are not coincidental. ;)

-- 
Stan

Andrew Morton is God's 2nd in command.  :-)
He took over from Alan Cox.

Seeing how all too frequently I have problems recovering from hibernation due to the video driver crashing, and my system can at least start without swap (I have 8GB) - I think will implement the file idea next time I do a major O/S upgrade.

Currently my options seems to be to either continue with my RAID-6 swap partition (which I have done) or to use a file within another RAID-6 partition.

I now have a policy of trying to spend more time understanding why I should do things a particular way, rather than simply following recipes blindly. partly because I am a geek, and partly it might be useful professionally.
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