Swap on RAID; was: Re: the new VM

From: parsley@roanoke.edu
Date: Mon Sep 25 2000 - 10:08:20 EST

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Ingo Molnar wrote:

> this is fixed in 2.4. The 2.2 RAID code is frozen, and has known
> limitations (ie. due to the above RAID1 cannot be used as a swap-device).

Eh, just to be clear about this: does this apply to the RAID 0.90 code
as commonly patched in by RedHat? Should I instead use a swap file for
a machine that should be fault-tolerant against a drive failure?

regards,
David

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David L. Parsley
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Roanoke College
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