Re: swap-on-raidframe vs raidctl -P

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:21:10 -0500 (EST)
der Mouse <mouse%Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA@localhost> wrote:

> >> Swap is on raid0b, and, when raidframeparity ran, it complained
> >> that raid0 parity was dirty and started a parity rewrite.  [...]
> > Without touching on your other points below, do you have swapoff=YES
> > in /etc/rc.conf?
> 
> rc.conf does not mention swapoff at all (/etc/defaults/rc.conf does
> contain "swapoff=YES", and no other references to swapoff).
>
It's mentioned in
http://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-rf.html#chap-rf-moving-files

> How is that relevant, though?  This is happening at startup, not
> shutdown.
> 


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb