Re: striped swapping?

Delman Lee (delman@amsta.leeds.ac.uk)
Sun, 28 Apr 1996 13:39:54 +0100

] <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk> said:
]
] > If I have two swap partitions on two separate hard drives (on separate
] > busses) under linux is the swapper clever enough to strip (even corsely
] > (sp?)) bewteen them? (I'm guessing you _can_ have more than one swap
] > partition active at once).
]
] Yes, IF you are using the new swapon from util-linux-2.5 or later, AND
] you use the new priority flags to give both your swap partitions the
] same priority.

Hi! I have been using the MD (multiple device) driver to have a swap
partition over two disks. Does it mean it is not necessary anymore to
use the MD driver for striped swapping?

Thanks, Delman.