On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Bohumil Chalupa wrote:
> 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.
In fact it's quite simple: the md device doesn't currently support swap
partitions (or swapping to files on an md device).
I've tried it with no luck. Someone mentioned working on some patched to
add support, but I haven't heard any news since then (about 2 months ago I
estimate).
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