Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 06:25:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 06:25:41 -0400 Received: from unthought.net ([212.97.129.24]:17897 "EHLO mail.unthought.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 06:25:39 -0400 Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 12:28:05 +0200 From: Jakob Oestergaard To: Zwane Mwaikambo Cc: Helge Hafting , Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk , Kernel mailing list Subject: Re: lilo/raid? Message-ID: <20020702102805.GA23296@unthought.net> Mail-Followup-To: Jakob Oestergaard , Zwane Mwaikambo , Helge Hafting , Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk , Kernel mailing list References: <3D216157.FC60B17E@aitel.hist.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1676 Lines: 39 On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 11:12:03AM +0200, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Helge Hafting wrote: > > > > > /dev/md1 swap swap defaults 0 0 > > > > > > One small thing, you do know that you can interleave swap? > > > > There are sometimes reasons not to do that. > > Heavy swapping may be caused by attempts to cache > > massive io on some fs. You better not have swap > > on that heavily accessed spindle - because then > > everything ends up waiting on that io. > > > > Keeping swap somewhere else means other programs > > just wait a little for swap - undisturbed by the massive > > io also going on. > > True, but what i meant was that instead of creating a RAID device to swap > to, he could have just interleaved normal swap partitions and gotten the > same effect. If it is a RAID-1 device, there are very good reasons for creating a RAID device for the swapping :) But other than that, you are right. There is no reason for creating a RAID-0 device for swapping. -- ................................................................ : jakob@unthought.net : And I see the elder races, : :.........................: putrid forms of man : : Jakob ?stergaard : See him rise and claim the earth, : : OZ9ABN : his downfall is at hand. : :.........................:............{Konkhra}...............: - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/