linux-kernel - Re: Raid 0 Swap?

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Date:	Mon, 04 Sep 2006 02:16:12 +0200
From:	Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@...a.inka.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Raid 0 Swap?

In article <44FB5AAD.7020307@...kel.com> you wrote:
> If I have two drives and I want swap to be fast if I allocate swap spam 
> on both drives does it break up the load between them? Or would it run 
> faster if I did a Raid 0 swap?

if you set up two swap partitions with the same prio, it will distribute the
access, you dont need striping for that. (However with striping you can a
bit better control the stripe size).

Of course you should not plan for swapping, it is just slow...

Gruss
Bernd

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