Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 25 Sep 2000 17:12:57 +0200 (CEST) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: Swap on RAID; was: Re: the new VM |
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On Mon, 25 Sep 2000 parsley@roanoke.edu wrote:
> > this is fixed in 2.4. The 2.2 RAID code is frozen, and has known > > limitations (ie. due to the above RAID1 cannot be used as a swap-device).
> as commonly patched in by RedHat? Should I instead use a swap file > for a machine that should be fault-tolerant against a drive failure?
the answer is yes. RAID5 will not deadlock due to VM problems, but RAID5 might have other problems if the device is being reconstructed *and* used for swap.
Ingo
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