Re: Swap on raid

[Robert Siemer]

Hi!

On 15 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> AFAIK, the swap code uses raw file blocks on disk, rather than passing
> through to vfs, cause you dont want to cache swap accesses, think about
> it :) 
> 
> this is how swap can work on a partition or a file, cause at swapon
> time, the blocks are mapped for direct access. 

I'm currently using NFS-Swap with kernel 2.0.3x. - On a 10MB/s-net...
This was a "standard-patch" (from bigmama?).
Would this work with a local nfsd with raid?
Sure - this has nothing to do with performance...  [:

Okay, okay, this is completely pointless.   (:

Bye,
        Rob