Re: lilo/raid?

Helge Hafting (helgehaf@aitel.hist.no)
Tue, 02 Jul 2002 10:16:23 +0200


Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
>
> On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
>
> > LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
> > /dev/md2 /tmp ext3 defaults 1 2
> > /dev/md3 /var jfs defaults 1 2
> > /dev/md4 /data jfs defaults 1 2
> > /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.

Helge Hafting
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