Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 07:31:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 07:31:03 -0400 Received: from [62.70.58.70] ([62.70.58.70]:34951 "EHLO mail.pronto.tv") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id convert rfc822-to-8bit; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 07:31:02 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk Organization: ProntoTV AS To: Helge Hafting , Zwane Mwaikambo Subject: Re: lilo/raid? Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 13:33:36 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.1 Cc: Kernel mailing list References: <3D216157.FC60B17E@aitel.hist.no> In-Reply-To: <3D216157.FC60B17E@aitel.hist.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: <200207021333.36435.roy@karlsbakk.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1276 Lines: 35 On Tuesday 02 July 2002 10:16, Helge Hafting wrote: > Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > > On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: > > > LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults > > > 1 1 /dev/md2 /tmp ext3 defaults > > > 1 2 /dev/md3 /var jfs > > > defaults 1 2 /dev/md4 /data jfs > > > defaults 1 2 /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. I've seen it. 1GB of swap for caching heavy downloads (se earlier thread 'VM fsckup' or somehting) What is the reason of using swap for cache buffers????? roy -- Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk, Datavaktmester Computers are like air conditioners. They stop working when you open Windows. - 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/