Swapping on raid (Re: raid0, raidtools 0.90 and kernel 2.2.0-pre1)

[Bohumil Chalupa]

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 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 allocate some memory, that might not be available when 
the need for swapping occurs.

Apologize my English, please.

Bohumil Chalupa
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