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Date:      Fri, 01 Aug 2003 19:00:48 +0200
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        David Schultz <das@freebsd.org>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: headsup: swap_pager.c 
Message-ID:  <1186.1059757248@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 01 Aug 2003 09:51:50 PDT." <20030801165150.GA78091@HAL9000.homeunix.com> 

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In message <20030801165150.GA78091@HAL9000.homeunix.com>, David Schultz writes:

>Aah, okay.  That's both a small improvement and a small regression
>in one.  The point of the static striping was to allow you to add
>swap devices and have them be automatically interleaved, so of
>course you can ``fix'' its limitations by removing it completely.

Well, I think it will for all practically purposes be better to
not stripe (using ccd) but use the round-robin allocation on the
individual components.  Doing that, adding another swap device
gets it "interleaved" with the rest just like before.

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