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From: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
To: Peter Zaitsev <pz@spylog.ru>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is  Swapping on software RAID1 possible  in linux 2.4 ?
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 22:13:00 +1000 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <15172.22988.643481.421716@notabene.cse.unsw.edu.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: message from Peter Zaitsev on Thursday July 5
In-Reply-To: <1011478953412.20010705152412@spylog.ru>

On Thursday July 5, pz@spylog.ru wrote:
> Hello linux-kernel,
> 
>   Does anyone have information on this subject ?  I have the constant
>   failures with system swapping on RAID1, I just wanted to be shure
>   this may be the problem or not.   It works without any problems with
>   2.2 kernel.

It certainly should work in 2.4.  What sort of "constant failures" are
you experiencing?

Though it does appear to work in 2.2, there is a possibility of data
corruption if you swap onto a raid1 array that is resyncing.  This
possibility does not exist in 2.4.

NeilBrown

  reply	other threads:[~2001-07-05 12:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.994340644.23368.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
2001-07-05 11:24 ` Is Swapping on software RAID1 possible in linux 2.4 ? Peter Zaitsev
2001-07-05 12:13   ` Neil Brown [this message]
2001-07-05 13:22   ` Re[2]: " Peter Zaitsev
2001-07-05 13:42     ` Arjan van de Ven
2001-07-05 18:56     ` Pete Zaitcev
2001-07-12  1:14     ` Re[2]: " Neil Brown
2001-07-12  1:48       ` Andrew Morton
2001-07-12  3:22         ` Neil Brown
2001-07-12  4:53           ` Andrew Morton
2001-07-05 14:54   ` Nick DeClario
2001-07-05 15:12     ` Joseph Bueno
2001-07-11 12:08     ` Paul Jakma
2001-07-06  9:38   ` Re[2]: " Peter Zaitsev

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