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Newsgroups: linux.dev.kernel Path: andrew From: andrew@babylon.riverside.ca.us (Andrew Tristan) Subject: Re: striped swapping? Message-ID: <Dqnrr7.1sC@babylon.riverside.ca.us> References: <199604272104.WAA02668@dax.dcs.ed.ac.uk> <Pine.LNX.3.91.960429115344.660B-100000@gytha.demon.co.uk> Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 04:42:43 GMT
In article <Pine.LNX.3.91.960429115344.660B-100000@gytha.demon.co.uk>, Bryn Paul Arnold Jones <bpaj@gytha.demon.co.uk> wrote: >On Sat, 27 Apr 1996, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > >> >> 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. If you don't do this, then the earlier installed >> partitions will be swapped to in preference to the later ones. >> > >Ok, so how do I use it, I do: ># swapoff -a ># swapon -v -p 10 /dev/hda2 > >I'm guessing about the 10, and it sais: >swapon: illegal option -- p >usege: swapon [-hV] > swapon -a [-v] > swapon [-v] [-p priority] special ... > >Hmm, look's broken to me, this is util-linux-2.5-7 (from the Red Hat >distribution). I'm just about to get the source of the util-linux >package from one of my cd's. Hmm, look's like it wasn't compiled with >priorites on, time to recompile .... perhaps it sould have said that when >I tryed to use them, oh well ... (and then not have the -p options appear >in the usage). Going to fix my utils now .... >
I tried and got the same, even after I made sure that SUPPORT_PRIORITIES was defined in mount/sundries.h. ("./swapon -V" yields "swapon: version from util-linux-2.5".)
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