[olug] software raid advice - swap?

[Daniel Pfile]

On Mar 2, 2007, at 3:10 PM, Ryan Stille wrote:

>
> The other option I'm thinking is to create the swap partition as  
> another
> raid device, mirrored on both drives.  I'm not sure thats possible.
> Whadda think?

I think mkswap /dev/mdX; swapon /dev/mdX; should work just fine. Why  
wouldn't it?

Swapfiles also work just fine. See this thread on the LKML for more  
info:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/6/28/427

-- Daniel