From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 23 Nov 2001 01:48:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 23 Nov 2001 01:48:38 -0500 Received: from mail6.speakeasy.net ([216.254.0.206]:53987 "EHLO mail6.speakeasy.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 23 Nov 2001 01:48:34 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" From: safemode To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: fstab swap options obscolete? Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 01:48:33 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20011123064837Z282075-17408+17667@vger.kernel.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In order to get multiple swap partitions/files to work at the same priority, you'd use the pri=NUM option in /etc/fstab. Now i've set this (pri=-1) on both and dmesg shows that they still get added at different priorities. first -1, second -2. Now if i swapoff them and swapon them it starts at -3 even though there is no longer a -1 or -2. Is this correct behavior? I'm kinda going on the assumption that loading multiple swap partitions together at the same priority will basically make the kernel use them in a striping mode. Is this the case? If not, how would i specifiy priority besides merely the order they're placed in /etc/fstab ?