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?