On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 05:13:11AM +0100, Corin Hartland-Swann wrote:
>
> 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.
yes. sad but true, sorry
> 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...
uhm, you always need swap, so the kernel can swap out unused pages and free
memory for more useful things (e.g. buffer cache)
i have 512Mb ram on my home system and i swap even without X
L.
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