Re: swaping - raid
On 14 Jun 1998, Deniz Dogan wrote:
: Hi,
:
: To use kernel`s raid0 support for swap partitions, I added
: these two lines to /etc/fstab
:
: /dev/hdc2 none swap sw 0 0
: /dev/hda1 none swap sw 0 0
:
: But boot messages says these partitions have different priorities
: (-1 and -2).
:
: Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
Yes. Using RAID0 on swap partitions is more or less a waste of time,
since the kernel supports round robin swapping. You need to add a
"pri=<number>" to the options field in /etc/fstab.
On one of my systems the swap partitions are described thusly:
/dev/sdb7 none swap sw,pri=1
/dev/sda7 none swap sw,pri=1
As long as the priorities are the same, round robin swapping will occur.
User assigned priorities have a "non-negative" value, according to `man
2 swapon'. It looks like the priority field is a signed integer, so you
have over 32000 values to play with for user assigned swap areas :)
Cheers,
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