[TriLUG] Running swap as an LVM drive

Joseph Tate jtate at dragonstrider.com
Fri Aug 29 00:04:48 EDT 2003


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You'll take a bit of a performance hit, as the LVM module does require 
some CPU time.  Other than that, no.

Jon Carnes wrote:

|I was just playing with an install of RH9 and I made the machine have
|one real partition (/boot => 100Mb) and the rest of the drives were all
|used for LVM blocks.  So naturally I setup swap within the LVM.
|
|Anyone know of any disadvantages in doing this?
|
|Jon Carnes
|
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