no. just to recap the discussion that has been occurring on and off this list
as i understand it:
1. it is NOT safe to swap to a raid partition while reconstuction is occuring.
the general consensus is that this is true whether or not the swap
partition is the one syncing. therefor, most folks seem to avoid swapon
until reconstruction is done on all raid partitions.
2. it is not safe to swap to a swapfile on a raid partition while
reconstuction is occurring. linux does not swap to a file exactly. it
actually swaps to the blocks occupied by that file. this is potentially
plagued with the same problems a case #1.
there are scripts to not do swapon -a if your raids are syncing in the
archives.
if i have some of this wrong, i would love to hear about it.
allan
Edward Schernau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> What if you use a swapfile for swap? And place that FILE on
> the RAID array?
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