Re: Linux 2.4.0-test8 and swap/journaling fs on raid

From: Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz)
Date: Wed Sep 27 2000 - 07:06:24 EST


Hi!

> On Wednesday September 27, cservin@cromagnon.com wrote:
> > I was just wondering if the issues with swap on a raid device and with using a
> > journaling fs on a raid device had been fixed in the latest 2.4.0-test
> > kernels?
>
> Yes. md in 2.4 doesn't do interesting things with the buffer cache,
> so swap and journaling filesystems should have no issues with it.

That is not neccessarily enough. nbd also does not play with buffer cache,
still you can't swap onto it.
                                                                Pavel

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