On Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 05:44:47PM +0300, Osma Ahvenlampi wrote:
> Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > > it does work for me (i do not actually use it as such, but i've done some
> > > > stresstesting under heavy load). Let me know if you find any problems.
> > > Hmm? Since when does swapping work on raid-1? How about raid-5?
> > i've tested it on RAID5, swapping madly to a RAID5 array while parity is
> > being reconstructed works just fine.
>
> Then the question is, from which patch set onwards has this worked? I
> have one server running an older version where swapping to RAID
> definitely doesn't work that I might want to upgrade (but it's a big
> effort), and another that I just set up with the most recent snapshot
> that apparently I could have configured for RAID-swap had I known
> about this.
I know that 2.0.36 with the 19990108 RAID patches, RAID-1, IDE disks,
and a swap-file does _not_ work.
It was easy to set up, but the moment the system started swapping, it
locked up badly.
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