Louis Mandelstam wrote:
>
> On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, M.H.VanLeeuwen wrote:
>
> > #swapoff -a
> > #dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1k count=1
> > #mkswap swapfile
> > #losetup /dev/loop3 swapfile
> > #swapon /dev/loop3
> > #free
> > total used free sharedbuffers
On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, M.H.VanLeeuwen wrote:
> #swapoff -a
> #dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1k count=1
> #mkswap swapfile
> #losetup /dev/loop3 swapfile
> #swapon /dev/loop3
> #free
> total used free sharedbuffers cached
> Mem:144044 141608
here is what i've tried on 2.0.36 on a raid 5 file system to
show it can be done, but I don't normally run this way because
of comments about locking up if resources are unavailable
#swapoff -a
#dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1k count=1
#mkswap swapfile
#losetup /dev/loop3 swapfile
#swapon /d
On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Bruno Prior wrote:
> Haven't tried it myself, but I've had two different reports that swap on RAID-1
> works, from people who didn't realise that it _shouldn't_ work. I encouraged them to
> post their experiences to the list, but I don't think either of them did. Could it be
> In fact it's quite simple: the md device doesn't currently support swap
> partitions (or swapping to files on an md device).
Haven't tried it myself, but I've had two different reports that swap on RAID-1
works, from people who didn't realise that it _shouldn't_ work. I encouraged them to
post
On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, MOLNAR Ingo wrote:
> > In fact it's quite simple: the md device doesn't currently support swap
> > partitions (or swapping to files on an md device).
>
> it's quite simple: it should work just fine, if not then it's a bug. (i've
> tested it and it works, but YMMV, bug repo
On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Louis Mandelstam wrote:
> In fact it's quite simple: the md device doesn't currently support swap
> partitions (or swapping to files on an md device).
it's quite simple: it should work just fine, if not then it's a bug. (i've
tested it and it works, but YMMV, bug reports
On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Bohumil Chalupa wrote:
> IMHO there's no reason for using raid0 (striped) partition for swap.
> If you use two swap partitions with equal priority, the kernel does
> the striping automatically.
>
> Another reason why NOT to use ANY RAID device for swap is that
> it may allo
On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Jorge Nerin wrote:
> I want to setup a raid0 stripped swap partition in an old 386 with 2
> hd. It has 2.2.0-pre1, and raidtools-0.90, raid0 is a module and its
> loaded when trying to do this.
IMHO there's no reason for using raid0 (striped) partition for swap.
If you use
