so what you are saying is that in the case of drive failure, we will lose
that data, unless we have a hardware raid.
how does the kernel map those pages to disk if the file is on an md
device? since you say it does not access the fs, does it just
auto. stripe the data across the constituent partitions?
al
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On Thu, 25 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 05:48:00PM +0100, Benno Senoner wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I heard that actually soft-raid for Linux can't swap over a /dev/md*
> > device.
>
> True and false.
>
> You can swap over Linear, and RAID-0, but there's no point. See the HOWTO :)
>
> ...
> >
> > I don't know how much slower it is to swap do a regular file instead
> > using the raw partition,
>
> This shouldn't matter, unless your swap file is heavily fragmented.
>
> The kernel builds a map of memory-page to disk-blocks, and thus doesn't access
> the filesystem layer once the swap file is set up.
>
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