On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Per Jessen wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Apr 2001 18:31:36 -0000, Craig Servin wrote:
>
> >I am curious if swap on raid works in the 2.4 kernels. If anyone could let me
> >know I would appreciate it.
>
> But would it - necessarily - make sense ? if you use multiple swap-paritions, Linux
> will alternate between them, provided you give them the same priority. Wouldn't
> that achieve the same goal, ie. faster swapping ?
no, if a disk fails that the kernel is using for swap, the kernel locks
up and the system goes down. With swap on raid, the failed disk is never
seen by the kernel because it is hidden by the raid system.
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