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    SubjectRe: striped swapping?
    Hi,

    On Sun, 28 Apr 1996 13:39:54 +0100, delman@amsta.leeds.ac.uk (Delman
    Lee) said:

    > ] <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk> said:
    > ]
    > ] > If I have two swap partitions on two separate hard drives (on separate
    > ] > busses) under linux is the swapper clever enough to strip (even corsely
    > ] > (sp?)) bewteen them? (I'm guessing you _can_ have more than one swap
    > ] > partition active at once).
    > ]
    > ] Yes, IF you are using the new swapon from util-linux-2.5 or later, AND
    > ] you use the new priority flags to give both your swap partitions the
    > ] same priority.

    > Hi! I have been using the MD (multiple device) driver to have a swap
    > partition over two disks. Does it mean it is not necessary anymore to
    > use the MD driver for striped swapping?

    Yes, that's what I said. Swap striping has been around in 1.3 for FAR
    longer than md has been stable for.

    Cheers,
    Stephen.
    --
    Stephen Tweedie <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
    Department of Computer Science, Edinburgh University, Scotland.



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