On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Erik Mouw wrote: > > > You could use it for an external journal, or you could use it as a swap > > device. > > > > Let me concur, I used external journal on SSD a decade ago with jfs (AIX). If > you do a lot of operations which generate journal entries, file create, > delete, etc, then it will double your performance in some cases. Otherwise it > really doesn't help much, use as a swap device might be more helpful depending > on your config. it doesn't seem to make any sense at all to use a non-volatile external memory for swap... swap has no purpose past a power outage. -dean - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
