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

[Bruno Prior]

> In fact it's quite simple:  the md device doesn't currently support swap
> partitions (or swapping to files on an md device).

Haven't tried it myself, but I've had two different reports that swap on RAID-1
works, from people who didn't realise that it _shouldn't_ work. I encouraged them to
post their experiences to the list, but I don't think either of them did. Could it be
that swap works on RAID-1, but not on others? This would be quite useful, since, as
has been pointed out, swap on RAID-0 is pointless, but swap on RAID-1 might provide
some insulation against the kernel being taking down by the failure of a disk
containing a swap partition.

Cheers,


Bruno Prior         [EMAIL PROTECTED]