Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 29 Sep 2000 23:29:19 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.4.0-test8 and swap/journaling fs on raid |
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Hi!
> > > On Wednesday September 27, cservin@cromagnon.com wrote: > > > > I was just wondering if the issues with swap on a raid device and with using a > > > > journaling fs on a raid device had been fixed in the latest 2.4.0-test > > > > kernels? > > > > > > Yes. md in 2.4 doesn't do interesting things with the buffer cache, > > > so swap and journaling filesystems should have no issues with it. > > > > That is not neccessarily enough. nbd also does not play with buffer cache, > > still you can't swap onto it. > > True. > However the reason that you cannot swap to RAID1/5 in 2.2 + > raid-patches is that it does interesting things with the buffer cache > while reconstructing drives. > As 2.4 doesn't, the reason is removed, and you can swap to it.
Are you sure there are no deadlock-when-low-on-memory bugs hiding somewhere? swap over nbd also *seems* to work.
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