Hi there,
On 3 Jun 2001, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> On 03 Jun 2001 17:19:10 -0700, Alvin Oga wrote:
> > just use a regular swap partition as swap... not /dev/mdxx
>
> You can do that, but it doesn't give you any redundancy. See above.
>
> For what it's worth, I -believe- that SWAP to a file on any RAID
> filesystem is safe, but I don't actually know the code very well. If
> you want to be safe with swap on RAID, upgrade to the 2.4.x kernels.
I am fairly sure that swapping to a file on a RAID-1 mirror has the same
problem as swapping to a RAID-1 partition, i.e. it is NOT safe to swap
during reconstruction.
I have a different take on all this. If you're running a server which
lots of RAM is there any point in swapping? Memory is so cheap nowadays
that you can put the most obscene amount of RAM in anyway...
Doing without swap would be my recommendation if you can't move to 2.4
Regards,
Corin
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