Messages in this thread | | | From | "Mike Black" <> | Subject | Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: 2.4.6 and ext3-2.4-0.9.1-246 | Date | Tue, 10 Jul 2001 14:27:00 -0400 |
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So it sounds like theres no advantage then to a swap partition vs file?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com> To: "Mike Black" <mblack@csihq.com> Cc: "Andreas Dilger" <adilger@turbolinux.com>; "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.or" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>; "Ext2 development mailing list" <ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 2:17 PM Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: 2.4.6 and ext3-2.4-0.9.1-246
> Hi, > > On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 01:59:40PM -0400, Mike Black wrote: > > Yep -- I said __files__ -- I'm less concerned about performance than > > reliability -- I don't think you can RAID1 a swap partition can you? > > You can on 2.4. 2.2 would let you do it but it was unsafe --- swap > could interact badly with raid reconstruction. 2.4 should be OK. > > > Also, > > having it in files allows me to easily add more swap as needed. > > As far as journalling mode I just used tune2fs to put a journal on with > > default parameters so I assume that's full journaling. > > The swap code bypasses filesystem writes: all it does is to ask the > filesystem where on disk the data resides, then it performs IO > straight to those disk blocks. The data journaling mode doesn't > really matter there. > > Cheers, > Stephen
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