Re: striped swapping?

Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk)
Sun, 28 Apr 1996 16:19:14 +0100


Hi,

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

> ] <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?

Yes, that's what I said. Swap striping has been around in 1.3 for FAR
longer than md has been stable for.

Cheers,
Stephen.

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Stephen Tweedie <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
Department of Computer Science, Edinburgh University, Scotland.