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SubjectRe: Adding more than 8 swap partitions
Peter Rival wrote:
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> Now I can add up to 15 swap partitions, not 32. I have 20 disks hanging off of an AS4000, with the possibility of somewhere in the area of 40 disks by the time I'm done. All of these disks are going to be configured the same - 256MB for swap, and the rest as a standard ext2 filesystem.

Decide what you want to accomplish, and then look for a better way to do it.

If you want fast swapping spread out over 20 disks, then configure
the 20 swap partitions together into one or more RAID0's, and swap to
a few BIG md-swap partitions.
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