Actually, this is no longer true with the current kernels & raidtools patch.
Swaping on to
a RAID device is ok. I have several systems here currently doing it on
RAID-1 devices
without any problems whatsoever.
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: Gulcu Ceki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, May 09, 1999 06:39
Subject: Re: Swap on raid
>
> Hi,
>
> Having read Jabob's Software-RAID HOWTO (0.90.2 - alpha 27th of
> February 1997), I learned that you are not supposed to swap on a raid
> partition. You can make the kernel stripe swap on different devices if
> the same priority is given in the fstab file.
>
> On the other hand, if the intent is higher reliability, then one can
> swap on a RAID-1 partition. However, this is NOT safe because of
> memory allocation problems as explained in the Jabob's HOWTO.
>
> Hope this helps, Ceki
>
>
