How about swapping to RAID-1 device, is it possible to do or not ?
> as was previously stated, there is no reason to swap to raid0 or linear.
> if anything that is a performance hit. the kernel stripes swap writes
> already. read the howto for that one.
>
> al
>
> "so don't tell us it can't be done, putting down what you don't know.
> money isn't our god, integrity will free our souls" - Max Cavalera
>
> On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Robert Siemer wrote:
>
> > Re!
> >
> > On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Benno Senoner wrote:
> >
> > > Some time ago I patched an old 2.0.12 kernel with the swap-over-NFS
> > > patch, for a diskless
> > > machine and it worked very well.
> >
> > Aehm, is there a patch for 2.2.x to be able to swap over NFS?! I need this
> > really for my diskless machine...
> >
> > > Does anyone know if there is a similar pacht that allows to swap over a
> > > soft RAID5 disk ?
> >
> > Here on a machine with kernel 2.0.35 I use the following in my /etc/fstab:
> > /dev/md0 swap swap defaults 0 0
> >
> > Okay, md0 is a raid0-array, and this could be done without raid (similar
> > priorities for usual swap-partitions), but why not with raid5?
> >
> > Or is the intention only to swap in a file...
> >
> >
> > Bye,
> > Robert
> >
> >
>
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