From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Sep 8 3:58: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ns.triplan.com (ns.triplan.com [62.156.252.214]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15DB014E3A for ; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 03:57:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Karl.Dietz@triplan.com) Received: from hermes.net.triplan.com (hermes.tri_bs_supp.triplan.com [192.168.1.6]) by ns.triplan.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA15264; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 12:50:19 +0200 Received: from triplan.com ([192.168.1.158]) by hermes.net.triplan.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA08531; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 12:50:18 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from Karl.Dietz@triplan.com) Message-ID: <37D63FAC.57842E4F@triplan.com> Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 12:51:24 +0200 From: Karl Dietz X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Robinson Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Vinum, malloc, and swap References: <199909080703.PAA00509@netrinsics.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Michael Robinson wrote: > > If not, is there any other way to prevent a system panic if a drive > containing a swap partition fails? As BSD accesses it's swap partitions round-robin like there should not be any improvement in putting it on a striped volume. The only reason for putting swap on a vinum disk would be for fault tolerance (raid5) but that makes it rather slow in swapping out. So what does one get from putting swap onto vinum drives? Regards, Karl BTW: Is swapping to vinum supported? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message