"m. allan noah" wrote:
>
> 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.
Hmm, I assumed that swapping to a file would have to go through
the filesystem, as opposed to a standard raw device.
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