Francesco Potorti` wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I remember having seen on this list a message saying that making a swap
> file on a filesystem residing over a raid device was not possible/reliable
> (because of a race condition in the kernel?).
>
> Unfortunately, my own archive of the list only contains a pass-by reference
> to such a discussion, and I cannot find archives of the list.
>
> May some kind soul point me in the right direction? Does an archive of
> this list exist?
The kernel will automagically stripe all swap partitions given. Ie, if
you tell swap to use /dev/sda1 and dev/sdb1 it will, in effect, use the
equiv of raid 0 across them. Now, if you want to do something kinky like
raid 5, your at the point where you might as well just buy more memory
and forget about swap. :)
Wayde
