Re: Linux 2.4.0-test8 and swap/journaling fs on raid

2000-09-29 Thread Rik van Riel
On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Neil Brown wrote: > On Friday September 29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > > Are you sure there are no deadlock-when-low-on-memory bugs > > > hiding somewhere? swap over nbd also *seems* to work. > > > > Good that you mention th

Re: Linux 2.4.0-test8 and swap/journaling fs on raid

2000-09-29 Thread Neil Brown
On Friday September 29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > Are you sure there are no deadlock-when-low-on-memory bugs > > hiding somewhere? swap over nbd also *seems* to work. Raid preallocates all the memory that it needs. When raid1 runs out of pre-alloca

Linux 2.4.0-test8 and swap/journaling fs on raid

2000-09-27 Thread Craig Servin
I was just wondering if the issues with swap on a raid device and with using a journaling fs on a raid device had been fixed in the latest 2.4.0-test kernels? I've gone too soft over the last few years to read the raid code myself :-) Thanks in advance, Craig PS I might be able to make sense o