Rob van der Heij wrote:
mature and "configuration by convenience" is more popular. I recently ran into a system administrator who swapped into a logical volume under LVM because he believed that was more flexible and easier to oversee.
Red Hat sets it up that way: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# swapon -s Filename Type Size Used Priority /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol01 partition 2031608 707400 -1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# This is RHEL-clone on my desktop. I don't know enough to say "it's good," or "it's bad" I understand that finding the LVM and "opening" it might be relatively slow, but once that is done I don't see any reason I/O to it would be different from using a DOS-style partition. -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Advice http://webfoot.com/advice/email.top.php http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 You cannot reply off-list:-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
