Re: Is Swapping on software RAID1 possible in linux 2.4 ?

[Neil Brown]

On Thursday July 5, [e-mail] 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