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
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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
>
>
