On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Jonathan F. Dill wrote:


  Without RAID or with RAID-0 you have 4/4 of the physical space
  available  for swap.  The maximum size for a linux swap space is ~127 MB
  AFAIK unless you've done something to the kernel to get around that
  limit.

that limit is gone up in 2.2. Not sure what to, maybe 2GB.

  What's the point of running swap on RAID anyway?  

what happens if the disk with your swap on it suddenly dies? your
machine dies too. with linux-raid it shouldn't.*

* but linux scsi isn't particularly robust though. 
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