From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: Tomas France <tomfra@centrum.cz>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SWAP file on a RAID-10 array possible?
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 18:02:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46C3780C.2090007@tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <02a201c7df1b$07dec720$332317ac@Cortex>
Tomas France wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I apologize for asking such a fundamental question on the Linux-RAID
> list but the answers I found elsewhere have been contradicting one
> another.
>
> So, is it possible to have a swap file on a RAID-10 array?
Yes, and very fast as well. Do note that if you (a) need to boot from a
recovery CD and (b) have a low memory machine which really needs swap
early, most of the ones I've tried don't use such a swap, you have to
start it by hand. Also, I have not tried suspend to disk and restore
using RAID-10, it's on my to-do list, but *way* down.
But in general you will find it very fast and reliable.
--
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
CTO TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-15 22:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-07 8:16 Linux RAID migration saeed bishara
2007-08-07 8:26 ` Tuomas Leikola
2007-08-07 10:02 ` saeed bishara
2007-08-07 10:22 ` Neil Brown
2007-08-07 10:32 ` saeed bishara
2007-08-07 10:46 ` saeed bishara
2007-08-07 11:18 ` Neil Brown
2007-08-07 11:31 ` saeed bishara
2007-08-07 11:40 ` Neil Brown
2007-08-07 13:27 ` saeed bishara
2007-08-07 15:15 ` saeed bishara
2007-08-09 3:23 ` Neil Brown
2007-08-15 9:02 ` SWAP file on a RAID-10 array possible? Tomas France
2007-08-15 10:10 ` David Greaves
2007-08-15 10:28 ` Tomas France
2007-08-15 12:59 ` David Greaves
2007-08-15 14:32 ` Daniel Korstad
2007-08-15 21:42 ` Michael Tokarev
2007-08-18 8:52 ` Tomas France
2007-08-15 22:02 ` Bill Davidsen [this message]
2007-08-07 10:37 ` Linux RAID migration Tomasz Chmielewski
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