Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Sun, 28 Apr 1996 13:39:54 +0100 | From | (Delman Lee) | Subject | Re: striped swapping? |
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] <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk> said: ] ] > If I have two swap partitions on two separate hard drives (on separate ] > busses) under linux is the swapper clever enough to strip (even corsely ] > (sp?)) bewteen them? (I'm guessing you _can_ have more than one swap ] > partition active at once). ] ] Yes, IF you are using the new swapon from util-linux-2.5 or later, AND ] you use the new priority flags to give both your swap partitions the ] same priority.
Hi! I have been using the MD (multiple device) driver to have a swap partition over two disks. Does it mean it is not necessary anymore to use the MD driver for striped swapping?
Thanks, Delman.
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