On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 11:12:03AM +0200, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Helge Hafting wrote:
>
> > > > /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. You better not have swap
> > on that heavily accessed spindle - because then
> > everything ends up waiting on that io.
> >
> > Keeping swap somewhere else means other programs
> > just wait a little for swap - undisturbed by the massive
> > io also going on.
>
> True, but what i meant was that instead of creating a RAID device to swap
> to, he could have just interleaved normal swap partitions and gotten the
> same effect.
If it is a RAID-1 device, there are very good reasons for creating a
RAID device for the swapping :)
But other than that, you are right. There is no reason for creating a
RAID-0 device for swapping.
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