On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 16:11 -0800, nate wrote:
> Dean Maluski wrote:
> > I've googled this question without a great deal of information.
>
> > Of couse will be creating RAID0 swap but leaving that out of the
> > question for obvious reasons.
>
> You really should use anything but RAID 0 for swap. If you need
> to swap and that device is dead then your system is hosed.
>
> At one point I read that you can get RAID0-"like" performance
> by having multiple swap partitions on multiple devices and mounting
> them with the same priority(mount option pri=(some number)). It
> (was/is) supposed to stripe the swap partitions. Not sure if that
> ever worked, though I have configured systems over the years to
> use matching swap priorities, never really looked to see if it
> was doing what I expected though.
>
> Yeah, from swapon(2):
> [..]
> If two or more areas have the same priority, and it is the
> high-est priority available, pages are allocated on a
> round-robin basis between them.
>
> nate
OK, not really an answer to my hot spare question.
What I read sounds similar to what you state that if you create multiple
swap partions the system will create a raid0 of it.
So what is the recommendation? create 1 swap partition on one drive?
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