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Date:      Thu, 27 Jun 2002 12:58:29 +0200
From:      Gary Jennejohn <garyj@jennejohn.org>
To:        loki_bsd@cox.net
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Order of swap devices in fstab 
Message-ID:  <200206271058.g5RAwT1G084637@peedub.jennejohn.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 27 Jun 2002 03:49:59 PDT." <200206270349.59835.loki_bsd@cox.net> 

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Brett Rogers writes:
> I have two swap drives/slices defined in /etc/fstab.  Does the order in 
which
> these are read determine which slice will be used most?  For example, one
> drive is SCSI and the other is on the same IDE I boot from.  I would 
assume
> having the SCSI slice be more active would be faster.  Is one of these 
used
> more than the other or are they treated the same?
> 

Swap use is interleaved. AFAIK there's no way to tell the kernel
to use one swap partition in preference to another one.

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Gary Jennejohn / garyj@jennejohn.org gj@freebsd.org gj@denx.de



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