Re: Swap partition priority

Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> writes:

> Is it possible to set swap partition priority?
> According to swapon(8), the answer is no, but I wonder if the man page
> might be outdated, if patches are available, etc...
>
> The reason is I have SSDs and HDDs in the same system: I normally use
> swap on SSDs (for speed obviously), but sometimes the amount is not enough.
> So I'm ponderind adding swap on HDDS too, but this would slow down
> everyrting unless it's really used as last resort.

Hello,

Long ago I came accross a setup were the swap device was a GEOM mirror
(see gmirror(8)). AFAIK it was working except for vmcores: the kernel
was always using the first device which required to help savecore(8) a
bit.

So maybe there's some GEOM class matching your needs.

Regards,

Stéphane