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    SubjectRe: Swap on RAID; was: Re: the new VM

    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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