swap partitions are type 83?

Bryn M. Reeves bmr at redhat.com
Thu Jun 4 10:13:24 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 23:49 -0500, Allen Kistler wrote:
> I was under the impression that the RAID autostart type mattered, 
> though.  I can easily remember when it was crucial.  Hmm...  Maybe it's 
> time to play.

It does but only if you're using in-kernel auto-detection to build the
arrays which is not recommended for new installations.

Afaik, fedora has been using entirely userspace array activation (mdadm
from initramfs/rc.sysinit) for several releases now (f8/9 or
thereabouts?).

Regards,
Bryn.





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