On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Bruno Prior wrote:
> 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.
I myself tried it on RAID1, patch raid0145-19981005-C-2.0.35 and tools
raidtools-19981005-B-0.90, on a Red Hat 5.1 box (a Compaq Proliant 6500R
without Compaq RAID controller, just a hot-swap SCSI tray).
My original report is at
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00311.html
I note I didn't mention what version of kernel patch etc I was using at
the time :(
Regards
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