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From: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
To: Peter Zaitsev <pz@spylog.ru>
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 22:13:00 +1000 (EST)
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Subject: Re: Is  Swapping on software RAID1 possible  in linux 2.4 ?
In-Reply-To: message from Peter Zaitsev on Thursday July 5
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On Thursday July 5, pz@spylog.ru wrote:
> Hello linux-kernel,
> 
>   Does anyone have information on this subject ?  I have the constant
>   failures with system swapping on RAID1, I just wanted to be shure
>   this may be the problem or not.   It works without any problems with
>   2.2 kernel.

It certainly should work in 2.4.  What sort of "constant failures" are
you experiencing?

Though it does appear to work in 2.2, there is a possibility of data
corruption if you swap onto a raid1 array that is resyncing.  This
possibility does not exist in 2.4.

NeilBrown
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