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Subject: Re: graid3 - requirements or manpage wrong?
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Brian Szymanski wrote:

>As for the swap: why would you want to do that? It was my understanding
>that the kernel load balanced swap requests across drives?
>  
>
You'd want to do it not for load-balancing but for fault tolerance.  
With a RAID 1/3/5 setup you could have a drive fail and still have 
swapping (and hence the system) continue to work.  That's not the same 
as (or true of) having multiple swap partitions with the system 
balancing load over all of them.

Cheers,

Paul.