[vox-tech] Partitioning scheme

Rick Moen vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Fri, 2 Aug 2002 11:13:13 -0700


Quoting Ehrhart, Jay (ehrhart@ycoe.org):

> Striping the swap file will improve performance since it is writing to
> multiple disks at the same time.

You may already know this, but the Linux swapper process already has
inherently within it the ability to split swap activity between
drive spindles.  Therefore, I strongly doubt there's any point in
striping / spanning one's swap partitions. 

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