Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1999-23,: Re: Byte blasts Linux?

# Re: Byte blasts Linux?

Florian Weimer (fw@cygnus.stuttgart.netsurf.de)
08 Jun 1999 20:24:47 +0200

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Jorge Gonzalez Villalonga <jorgegv@icai.upco.es> writes:

> I always thought that Linux striped through all configured swap
> partitions, and I didn't need to do swap over RAID. In fact, if I
> remember well, the documentation of the Raid tools says that swapping
> over a striped device won't give better performance, because the kernel
> already stripes swap partitions...

Well, you certainly want to put the swap space on the RAID array because
otherwise, you are doomed if one of your drives blows up. ;)

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